The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-01-14
THE FLORIDA DAGRfdUIF URISFI

and have plenty of capital to use IN
the business SO that you can hold
your stock when the demand Is not
good, you cam DO very well with
thoroughbreds ;bpt, as arule, grades
pay much the best. sAkaaA
End. elbow can get good grades
and not have them cost me TOO
much III 1nsevefy part Of the copn-
try common sheep are sold in Large
quantities every fall for mutton. Large
and small, old and young, are sent or
sold to the butcher. Go into q mans
flock and select as many ewes as You
want. Get all of one age (yearlings)
which you can readily distinguish by
their teeth. Select those OF uniform
size, and pay the owner an extra
price to let YOU select them. II You
do not get enough in one mans
flock, go through another, and SO on,
until you get as many as you want,
Depend upon it, you will never be
sorry if you get them all Of the same
age or style. Now comes the most
important part Get good thor
oughbred ram Of the breed you fancy
-be it Merino, Leicester or Cotswold.
Get it Of an honest breeder, and get
one of undoubted purity Of
blood, SO that, he will transmit his
valuable qualities to every one of his
progeny. gsn.le Is q,
Do not ask, breeder to sell you a
No. sheep for a scrub price. Use
the ram two years, and then get
another, and so on. Change your
rams every two years. Sell off all
your first purchase of native sheep
after breeding them two years. Then
you will have a flock Of sheep you
will be proud of. aaa nTNE
Wean your lambs at five1anonths
old, and see that the ewes bags. do
not spoil, but milk them at least
twice-the second and fifth days
after weaving. Do not let your
lambs breed the first year, but give
them little extra care the first. vim
ter. T. - a. ~
1 Sd. Do not confne your sheep too
much in winter. Let them have
plenty OF range and grass whenever
the ground is bare, but always have
good shelter to go, under, whenever
they wish. ~ +
4th. Take care to keep your
flock as even in flesh as you can the
whole year round. Too fat and then
too poor has a bad effect, both on
the sheep and on the wool. In this
climate, teed OF pint of corn daily
to each. sheep, from the first of De
cember to the first OF April suits ex.
actly.
9Th. Take care of. the health of
your sheep. Put little pine tar in
your feed troughs in winter, and give
la little sulphur occasionally with
their salt. The first OF June, July,
and August dapb their noses with
pine tar. It's good tor the sheep
and prevents the gab,f1y from annoy
ing them. Sometimes the digestive
organs Of sheep become disorded.
The sheep will lose its appetite look
badly, become isolated, and one hard.
ly knows what to do for it. Still, if
something is not done, in nine cases
out OF ten, when they are SO effected
in the winter season they die. My
remedy is this Half a teaspoontut
of spirits OF turpentine, one table
spoonful OF common salt and one,
teacupful of water, well shaken to-
gether in bottle. Drench them
with itS twice a day, emerpings and
evening, lintib they are WELL Take
care to drench slow, so as not to
strangle. This remedy hardly ever
fails to cure, when administered in
season. The product of the pine
tree seems to suit the sheep exactly.
When the boughs car be obtained to
put in their yards in winter, there is
nothing better Tor the lhealthiot the
sheep. aA st niacaia i.isRi'
Here is a remedy for the scours:
Take one egg, stir in flour until You
have a thick paste, add thirty, drops
ofllaudanum, divide into, six pills, and
give one of these pills each morning
and evening until they are cured.
BY putting the pills in the mouth and
holding the sleeps jaws together,
they will swallow them very quickly.
This is the bestremedy I have ever
tried.
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