Arizona republican., 1891-02-17
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REARING SPRING LAMBS.
EXPERIENCE OF A MAN WHO COINS
 THE WORD "LAMBERY.r

One Breeder Who Has Succeeded Well
 with Spring Lambs-He Speaks Strong.
 ly in Favor of the yigor and Reliabil.
 ity of the Horned Dorset Breed.
 J, s, Woodward, of Niagara county N. r., furnishes to The Rural New Yorker the following useful information in regard to rearing spring lambs:
 If the place where we raise pigs is q "piggery," why not call the place where we raise early lambs "lambery2" am in favor of it. We'll, we have com menced operations in our lambery this year, not earlier than ever before, but on more extensive scale for so early d date, On Oct. 1S We had no young lambs, but when 1 was home the day before election--Nov. 3--we had sixty six, which made an average of little over four a day, and they were then coming lively. This is Q much better success than we had ever had before.
 One early lamb is worth two late ones, and we have given days to the investi. gation of the best way to produce them, trying to discover some sure way of ob- taining success every time. Sometimes we have thought we had solved the problem, and then, the very next year, have found we were as far of as ever. We used to think that it would not do to keep ewes for this purpose more than one year; that the forcing process was such & strain upon the system that they would play out" but we have changed our minds
 A eve that raises an early lamb this year is much more likely to have one next, and will do better by it than a fresh eve, and so we have taken to sort ing out all our best mother ewes and keeping them over, The idea that ewes cannot stand the close housing and high feeding necessary to produce the best re- suits more than single year is hum bug, and we now keep them three or even four years at the business. We look upon this as one cause for our great luck" this year.
 The best breeds for sirts is Q matter of very great importance. We have tested nearly all the breeds for this purpose and up to three years ago were fully convinced that the Hampshire was su. perior to all others, although we still tried each year in small way the other black faced breeds. Four years ago we imported n few Dorset Horned, but they arrived too late to be used that year. The next year we used one of the rams to a limited extent, and were much pleased with the crosses produced. The lambs came strong, were robust, lively and grew very rapidly.
 The rams have so much prepotency that one can hardly tell half bloods from a Dorset sire from full hloods, and as matter of course the lambs all have large horns. When the first were sent to market our agent wrote, Those tre- mendous horns are very great objec. tion, and you had better put the lambs into some other market" but within an hour of the time when the letter was re- ce'ved telegram came, saying, "The parties who had the horned lambs want more; send them right along" That was the last objection that was ever raised to them, and now the bigger the horns the better do the lambs sell. They are sort of trademark.
 The next year---in lSS9--we used sey. eral Dorsets. As as an experiment., with one flock of little over 100 ewes, we put one ram of each of the Shropshire, Hamp- shire and Dorset breeds. When the lambs came more than half were Dor. Set crosses, and there were twice as many Dorset twins as of both the others The Dorset crosses grew more rapidly than the others, and went to market when from week to ten days younger than either of the others, and sold for better prices. More than this, all, or nearly all, the very earliest lambs were Dorset crosses. We then dcuided 70 use this year nearly all Dorset sires, and have done so, having only used Shrop- shires and Hampshires in an experiment. al way.
 Although the rams of each of the three breeds were put with the ewes at the same date, of all the lambs dropped up to Nov. only three were of the black 1 faced percentage. While it is doubtful if the breed is the only factor in getting very early lambs, there is no doubt it l has very much to do with the matter. l | do not wish to boom tue Dorsets, and have not done so, as all must know, for although we have had them now for over four years, this is the first time l 1 have ever written a word in their praise, and almost the first time I have men, tioned them, and all have to say now is that, having tested them fully for four years for early lamb getting, have not found them wanting.