Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-30

tritious by frost it is expedient 20 give.
legs little extra feed. !hey grow nne-
~ on pumpkins or roots. W heat Oran
is one of the very best feeds for them,
and il can be mixed with few oats a.
the grass grows poorer.
1t is a decided mistake, however, IN
our judgment, to pdBper tegs III Fpe
Fall. If fed high at this season, they
eei their Winter feed less and II mus
re increased 10 ALI extent which renters
their wintering less safe We have, II Il
true. seen m-ny flock OF them Very
highly kept in " inter which went
through ''splendidly." and were OF tiie
size of ordi lary two-year oids AT theli
first shearing. Indeed, this Is the ordI-
nary course of those who breed tegs to
-ell at high prices. With great judg-
ment and care. and especially III sinai
fiocks, il may ordinarily be safe enough
but we have known too many severe
disasters to grow out OF the practice hot
TO caution the mass uf sheep-groweIs
.,gsinst it. We esteem p"nLpering sheep
at any age, except when they are being
fattened TO kill, ,injurious-and especially
50 before they reach their second year.
Their natural habits are united 10 IL,
and their constitutions will not safely
bear it. When they are appearing best,
the destroyer sometimes comes so sud-
lenly and fatalIy'as to defy all discovery
OF prOEimdte causes aud battle all RENE
dial measures.
For both the tall and winter feed OF
egs We prefer, among the grains, oais
and bran. Both iuulike co.) tenu Ia
he production of muscle (cleaB neat)
instead OF fat, and therefore promote
growth instead of unnecessary Obesity.
r..If ~
and therefore less stimulating form.
they are. in popular phrase, less heat
ing" and less ''feverish" feed, i. e., they
do not so much prediepOse the system
To inflammatory tenIencies and attacks.
If fed separately, equivalents OF them IN
weight are probably about equivalents
in nutpiment-but We much Ike the
plan of feeding them mixed, say one part
oats to two of bran and TO Merino tegs
well brough into winter, gill OF bran
and Eaif gill of oats, per head, with a
little green feed (say gill of turnips,)
with a full allowance of bright, fine ear
ly cut hay, ought under ordinary cir
cumstances to be sufficient daily allow
ance for store" tegs in winter. By
"stOre" tegs We mean those not fitted up
to sell or show at fairs, or raise "brag'
fieeces from-but those intended to be
kept in the flock for regular wool-grcw-
ing purposes. !
Fine, green, early cut ana well cured
hay is almost Indispensable in wintering
tegs. No grain or root feed can proper
" supply the want of it. We would
rather winter tegs OH it without any
grain, than on coarse, dry, over-ripe
timothy, with any amount of grain and
roots. We esteem fine red clover,
green as tea," very important, if not
necessary Ingredient in hay for tegs. We
would prefer to have it from a third to a
half of the NOW.
The Woburn experiments of Sinclair
10y demonstrating that nearly ripe timO-
thy contains more nutriment than when
it is cut earlier, handed down a legacy
of evil to the sheep breeders of our coun
try-if not indeed to the breeders of all
stock, usIess perhaps horses, mules and
asses. Sheep farmers are learning thai
nutriment must be presented in form
palatable enough to be eaten.
Cold, severe Autumn rains benefit no
sheep, and are perceptibly injurious TO
tegs, especially if they are thin aid
backward. When rains begin to fall,
Iegs should be brought near the barn,
and run in during their approaches, also
during their continuance, and as Winter
alSo uufliiS coiu, I'd" hfSHtS-
If kept up more than half day, they
should be fed hay in a rack. But we
mad rather they should remain out of
,ioors than TO he crowded into some little,
sinking THAT We should use such a
word y hole, with mud or wet up to their
fetlocks, there stand fastin for twelve
or twenty-four hours.
1t is useless to talk about ventilation,
md perfect dryness underfoot, in a
of any description. These
ropics are stale. But we may suspect
>nne men who are not used to it in their
,,0a houses. do OF know what proper
ventilation is. We propose The follow
ing test when a nights confinement
If the flock in the sheep house produces
wen slightly disagreeable animal smell |
rr temperature above so degrees, the
house is not tproperly ventilated. I Amer
lean Stock Journal.