St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-05
CLIPPED FROM SHEEP.

The milk of sheep is quite largely
used in some of the old countries for
cheese making, says the National Stock
man. Sardinia makes over 1,000,O 600
pounds of this cheese annually. In
some of the Italian factories the milk OF
COWS, sheep and goats is mixed in max
ing cheese. There is small sheen
cheese factory in Tennessee. The arti-
Gle is reputed to be rich and delicious"
DR.. }. B. Taylor, prominent ranch
man in Texas. reports loss of % per
cent of the half crop on pasture of
100000 acres through the depredatiOus
of wild animals, mostly wolves. He
claims he has now reduced wolf poison
ing to a science. His method is de-
Scribed as follows: He uses No 8 cap
SuleS, packing them full of stTychnina
and inserting them in small pieces OF
dried or partially dried meat; when
the meat is in this condition the wolves
will take it Just as readily, and the
capsules will not dissolve so as to let
the taste of the poison penetrate tho
meat. He thinks it is not necessary to
make drag of fresh meat, as is the
general custom, but that few drops OF
rhOdium dropped on lariat and dragged
over the ground will answer every pur-
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has for some time been obliged To keep
guard III his cOrralS at night, and even
then as many as three sheep have been
killed in single night by the wolves
suddenly dashing in, doing their work,
and out again before they could be pre-
vented.
Central New York. says the National
StOckman, so far as general sheep in
duStry is concerned. presents peculiar
feature just now, and there is little
doubt that this state of affairs IS quite
prevalent in many parts of the country.
There are no lambs or young sheep TO
be had at any price. This stock brought
such high price all the season that
farmers generally sold all they had, ex-
pecting they could do as formerly, step
out to the neighbOrS and fill up again;
but when they came to look about when
they had leisure they found everybody
else in the same boat. The cOnse-
quence is that there are few sheep in
this section, and these are principally
'broken mouthed." A sheepman who
desired to purchase bunch of young
animals, visited between twenty and
thirty tlockS, and did not find young
eve in the whole. He did eXaggerate a
little, however, when he said: "Ono
man had 200 that did not have tooth
in their heads" He purchased small
bunch of 100-pOund yedrling ewes early,
though, at $3.50, is now "offered So, but
would not take So, for sheep will be
sheep another year, | tell you"
There is quite scarcity of hay in
many parts of Iowa and the West, says
the Homestead, and the f1OckmaSter
necessarily looks around for substi-
tute. The very best substitute for hay
in CHI 10
and If it is not available il is then quito
advisable to feed straw. Those who
have sheep to winter and have plenty
of good straw may not expect the sheep
to starye. Sheep will thrive on good,
bright straw, together with very
small quantity of oats or other grains.
Corn is excellent when fed in ration
with straw, as the straw cOunteractS the
binding nature of the corn, and COLI
stipatiOn is prevented. If you have
some hay and straw it is better to feed
straw until gone, then feed the hay.
Sheep do better this way, and they eat
the straw better by not having taste
of the palatable hay. The straw should
be fed in racks, putting in from
One-third to 0ne-half more than they
will eat up clean; and feed half pint
oats each once per day, or its equivalent
in corn. This grain feed will in five
months amount to one bushel and
peck, or 80 cents-10 cents per month.
This is no theory, for we have actually
employed this ration during scarcity
OF other fodder. and know that the flock
will thrive. Hay Is trifie more pala-
table than straw, but straw is much to
be preferred to ''clean timothy" for
sheep. Hay at So per ton may cause
some mathematical calculation TO see
any great profit in its generous feeding,