St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-04
Wool and Mutton.

j. A. Daniel, of Glen st. Mary, Baker
county, Fla, has small flock of An
CORA goats, ranging from half-bloods up
to fifteen-sixteenths. which he has bred
up from pure-blOOd buck, bought by
Sheep Breeder. He states that they are
perfectly healthy, though running most
of their time on river bottom. The
beauty of the Angora in this dog-cursed
country is that it whips the dog-knocks
him fiat.
A Maine farmer who is fattening 1000
head of sheep feeds the following ra-
tiOns, says an exchange: For breakfast
they get thirty bushels of corn and a
ton of early cut hay; for dinner, ten
bushels of roots-turnips, beets and car
rots mixed with half ton of shorts; for
supper the same as breakfast, thirty
bushels of corn and a ton of hay. The
flock run together over the fields, hay is
fed on snow or frozen ground and at
night the sheep sleep in the yards that
are deeply bedded with straw.
The consumption of mohair in the
United States during 1888, was 2,405, 53S
pounds, says writer. Of this only
6S5. LOG was grown in this country. Dur
ing the same period England consumed
almost eight times this amount. Of this
vast amount of mohair England inn
and 100000 pounds from the cape.
MacNaughton's claim that the highest
grade of the American product COM
pares favorably with the best grown
foreign, and that our pure-blood hair is
fully equal to anything raised in the
world.
When an eve diSOwnS her lamb it is
a good plan, says the American Sheep
Breeder, to imprisOn her in stall so
narrow that she cannot turn around in
it, and can only squat down to sleep.
With the bars running horizontal, and
about six inches apart. the lamb can
thrust it's head between them and suck
in spite of all her opposition. She can
be kept there until she yields: but she
must receive plenty of succulent feed
meanwhile, such as green rye OF roots,
with an ounce per day OF linseed meal,
or there will be danger of her milk dry
ing up during this rigorous confine-
ment. In this case the last end would
be worse thon the first.
The maxim, IA small farm well
titled" is an old one, says writer, and
areas is excellent, but this rule is one
that is also applicable to herds and
focks in certain sense. To make a
small farm profitable the land must be
brought up to the highest degree of
fertility, and it must be well fed if it is
to produce heavily. The quality of the
soil is the prime factor to be considered
before the venture is made. If farmers
cultivate too much land they also keep
larger herds and flocks than are neces-
Sary to success. 1t is the well-bred herd
that gives the farmer profit, and the
failure to make stock-raiSing pay is due
to the keeping of large numbers OF UNI
profitable animals instead of concern
trating the capital and labor on small
but better class of stock.
Don't attempt to keep too many kinds,
says Farm, Stock and Home: this is a
common error with the beginner. No
sooner does he acquire one breed than
he imagines he has discovered SUI
perior trait in another breed, and he
stock. 1t is probable that he has not
studied the needs nor characteristics of
the breed he started with, and often be-
fore he knows it he is hampered with
halfa dozen different breeds and num-
Der of strikingly original crosses. Stick
to one breed until you are thoroughly
acquainted with it. Then, if you have
plenty of room-plenty, understand
and if your inclination runs that way.
add something else. If you are seeking
a reputation you can make it easier
with one breed than with three, and you
will give better satisfaction with eggs.
For mistakes will occur, you know, and
it is easy for the heads of f1ocks to get
into the wrong pens and create mis-
chief.