Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-02-16

waters, anu udllS tucli W uIV. DO
not wiring them.
Col. CoLMAN, of the Rural World,
says none Of the root crops save the
turnip thrive we'll in the latitude of st.
Louis that all roots, even the potato,
thrive best in cooler climate, and that
on account of the dry summers and
comparatively dry springs they can not
raise one-fourth the quantity of roots
that can be grown further north.
Long Woods and Misunderstanding
sheep.
The improved long-wooled sheep will
not bear neglect as we'll as the unim-
proved Merino. But will one of Mr..
Hammond's choice, high bred, i'm
proved American Merinos stand neg
lect any better than Cottswold or a
South-down Will it do any better on
low, wet land, or on coarse heritage
VIII it thrive any better on ferment-
ing manure heap9 Instead of telling
farmers that improved long-wooled
sheep VIII not bear herding"-that
they cannot be kept in large hocks-it
would be better to tell them that they
will not bear neglect, starvation, and
general bad treatment, as well as COM
mon Merines, This would be true, and
it is of all improved animals, or, for
that matter, of all choice varieties of
of plants, seeds and fruits.
If DR.. Randall uses the term "herd-
ing in this sense, l quite agree with
him; but it would be much better to
use some other term, as this one con-
yeys no distinct idea-or If it does, it
is an erroneous one. 1t confounds
cause and effect. Some one will be
telling us by and by that Short Horns
and Devons will not "herd y IS well as
the Texas cattle-and there would be
Just as much sense and meaning in the
term as there is when it is said that
Cotswolds will not "herd as well as
Merinos.
On Mr. Lawes' farm at Rothamstead,
the first winter l was there, one hun
dred and twenty Hampshire Down
wether lambs were put "on the
boards under matched shed, about
the first of October, and never taken
ont until they were ripe for the butch
err; and to the best of my recollection
the whole lot, at about a year old,
averaged twelve stones, or Sc pounds
dressed weight each. forget the exact
size of the shed, but should say it was
about ten feet deep with feeding
trough in front; and that the length of
the shed was only little more than
was necessary to allow each sheep to
stand at the trough and eat. Never did
sheep do better
I,,% I %i,
"these were Hampshire Downs, and
this breed herds better than the
Cotswolds.n But all that need be said
in reply to this is that MIR. Lawes' eel
ebrated experiments on the :" fatten-
ing qualities of the different breeds of
Sheep were made in similar sheds,
and that the Cotswolds not only re-
NAMED healthy, but gained much more
than any other breed.
Can you keep greater weight of car
cass in one of these sheds with Merino
sheep than with Cotswolds, and will
they stand this kind of "herding any
better Ask Jurian Winnie. He feeds
about thousand sheep every winter,
long-wools and Merinos, and keeps
them in very close quarters, and the
long-wools do better than the Merinos
or at any rate, he says he can make
twice as much money in fattening them
AZ he can from the Merinos. But mark
YOU, Mr.. Winnie gives his sheep the
best care and attention, and thisfs all
there is to the question. If they have
the necessary food, gwen regularly and
50 distributed that each sheep can get
its due proportions if their apartments
are kept we'll ventilated, and free from
all fermenting manure; long-wooled
sheep will "herd " just as well or bet
ter than Merinos. Small tlocks are de-
sirable simply because of the greater
ease of attending to these particulars.
The great secret of success, in the
winter fattening and management OF
sheep is to attend to them yourself. A
hired man who will feed at given hour
every day, and in the accustomed or
der: who will exercise little judg-
ment as to the amount required-feed
ing a little more grain and hay during
cold stormy day, than during warm
one; who viii see that the sheep never
want for water, and that they never
have to drink water that is reduced al
most to the freezing point by snow and
ice, but who will, on the contrary,
pump them fresh water three or four
times a day, and always at a fixed
hour; man who knows how to fodder
the sheep in such way that they are
tempted to eat as much as
they can possibly digest, without
leaving any to get stale in the racks a
man that Will litter the sheds and yards
two or three times day, doing it with
Judgment, and never allowing any part
to get dirty, but having at all times
nice, clean bed for the sheep to lie on;