The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-12
Summer Management OrBheep.

This 10 the best month 10 take 0 re-
view and Inspection OF the whole flock,
and determine the number ofthrlftless,
Improbable animals there are In the
whole flock, and then bring them up
one lot at q time, and pick out the worst
6heep from each lot, and make up q
Iot OF mixed ages and sexes. This lot
may now DO kept separate and get ex-
ira care, with a'llttle feed daily, so as
70 get them up In flesh, In order that In
TWO months they, or n portion OF them
may DC used for mutton, and II there ia
aportion that do not fatten they should
be sold 70 the pelters. They should not
90 Into the flock 10 winter over again,
nor should they be sold 10 q farmer for
stock sheep, for the more that he would
buy OF this kind Of tail.end sheep the
poorer he would grow. The lot Of
ewes and lambs should, during this
month, have good attention. II should
be seen that they have q good range
With water. Many Of the ewes that
dropped their lambs Ia April are al
most, and some OF them entirely dry,
and their lambs are left TO subsIst en-.
tirely upon the food they gather with
the aock.
Lambs dropped In April may be
weAned the hrst OF August, and should
not be delayed longer than the fifteenth
They may be prepared for It BY taking
up the lot OF ewes and lambs and keep.
Ing them few days on short pasture,
without water, and feed them In troughB
Few times, &c as 10 educate the lambs
to eat from troughs.
When the ewes and lambs are Bepa-
rated they should be put In fields 80
distant apart that the old and young
may not hear each other bleat. About
the third day after separation, II there
are man yeWeB having their udders
hard and swollen, they and their lambs
should be brought together again for
about two hours, so that the lambs may
draw the milk. II there are but few,
the milk may be drawn with the hand,
and thus prevent the udder from be-
coming inllamsd and caked, and rem
dered unit for future use. The lambs
should daily have feed OF bran or
oats, or both mixed; they should have
constant access TO q salt.box, filled with
O mixture OF salt and one.llth wood
ashes, for ten days; then change 1t 10 q
mixture Of, to each quart OF salt add
one ounce OF sulphur and one ounce OF
pulverized copperas (oxide irOn), and
so change It every ten days. During
protractsd rains, any time after lambs
are weaned, It is we'll 10 keep them
housed and fed on fresh dry hay. With
this care diseases may be prevented
from which many lambs perish before
they are one year old.
The ewes, after having been attended
to by keeping on short allowance until
well dried up, and the cullB thereof put
with the culled lot, should then be
kept In thriving condition, on grass,
until October first, when II will be
time to arrange them for breeding.
Stock rams should be taken up about
the first Of July and kept about the
yards and buildings, where they can be
seen every day, and be sheltered from
warm rains, for by getting wet In warm
weather maggots are likely to breed
upon the head under the horns, and on
heavy tleeced rams sometimes over the
body, from which they will speedily
and miserably perish II the worms are
not dislodged.
Stock rams should not be allowed to
grow too fat In the summer, but kept
In good healthy store condition,