The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1892-07-09
LAMB CREEP.

The frame can be made Of light iron or 2
bv z scantling The two posts O') each
have hook top and bottom for hanging the
wire netting on. making 1t convenient for
moving The netting should be thirty inches
high The posts are hooped with iron at the
top and cased at the bottom. The creeps tA)
are twenty-four inches high and are shown In
the engraving to be of disproportionate width
betwecn tho rollers, which should be set from
six TO eight or ten inches apart according to
the breed The rollers (R) turn on iron spikes,
or inch gas pipe answers the purpose II prop
erly set 20 rs to allow of revolution. Or these
uprights may be made stationary. The slide
through which the rollers or upriGhts pass II
adiustable so that IL can be set to the height
of the lambs and fixed there by iron pins. The
ends of the slide should be thin plate iron
which can be easily moved up and down In the
Sits In the posts.
When you want to bring out a lot OF
carly ram or wether lambs for the fall
or Christmas shows no time should be
lost. An incIosure of hurdles with
troughs and feed inside and creep in the
center of the fold should at once be
erected in the field, so that the lambs
may 20 through ut will to feed on crush
ed cake, peas or oats, and when satisfied
return outside and steal drink of their
mothers milk, or the system / work on
myself is, think, still preferable--feed-
ing the lambs three times day, giving
them only what they will consume for
the time being.
Lambs are very dainty in their eating
the least offensive smell seems at once to
disgust them. In the first place they
should have feed troughs specially fol-
themselves. These should be about SIX
feet long, the bottom six inches wide
and the sides not more than two inche:
in height; they should be raised about
four inches from the ground and round
pole should run along the top OF the
trough from one end to the other to pre-
vent the lambs from jumping from ont
side of the feed box to the other. which
they continually keep doing, dropping
dirt from their feet in the trough ant
wasting much feed. The pole must b
sufficiently high from the trough so a
not to interfere with the lamb reachin;
the feed.
prefer fiat bottomed feed box to
v-shaped one. Lambs like their fee
in troughs so formed, presume, becaus
they do not blow on the food whel
spread on fiat surface nearly so niue
as when placed deep in narrow space
Feed little at time is the great secret
Let the shepherd stand by while tn
lambs are eating and as they clean thei
dish add handful more. BY sue
handling it is astonishing the quantit
of grub you can coax them to stuff int
their little stomachs, and it is marvelou
how lambs develop under such trea
ment.
The shepherd should when the lamt
are eating take particular notice OF tn
gross feeders-the big CONSTITUTIONS
sorts-for these are the ones he has
depend on for winning honors in tn
show arena. He should also stamp o
his memory the ewes that have produce
the best lambs, so that he may besto
on them every care to reproduce to az
vantage.
| take care that lambs under II
charge wake up every morning to IL
eral feed Of cake and oats, and ut nigl
they receive the same before restll