The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-12
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To Prepare Spring Lambs For Market
Next Winter.
The sheep | marketed were Shrop-
shire, nearly all full blooded, but not
MANY registered. They were all Of my |
own breeding and feeding. put up to |
feed ON the goth Of December last 1l2 |
sheep weighing then 1876 pounds aver
age, 81 Of which We're yearling wethers |
and 81 old ewes and 10 young ewes. |
fattened the old ewes ON account Of age, |
some being years old. I kept them |
thus long for their good individual quail
tiles as well as for good breeding. The
young ewes | culled out to better my
breeding flock, as | did not like the
shape Of some and the wool Of others. |
never weighed each lot separately. All
the ewes raised lambs last year and some |
two lambs hence they were thin in flesh
when | commenced to feed them. On
Feb. | weighed them again, and they
averaged l43 pounds, a gain of IL
pounds in 43 days. On March l3, the
day shipped, weighed them, and
they averaged 1853 pounds, gain Of II
pounds more in 40 days, and when sold
in Chicago the following day the 81
wethers weighed $50 pounds, an
average Of l47 l3 pounds and were
sold to Armour for cents, the highest
price paid since April last The 80 ewes
also sold to Armour for 81. 80 and weigh
ed 4, $40, an average Of little over 1852
pounds, and they also brought the top
price Of the day except my wethers.
On Dec. 20, when | commenced to
feed them, / took them from blue grass
pasture, sorting them from my flock Of
2S5. The pasture had been rather short.
put them in dry lot 60 by 40 feet, ex-
elusive of a shed ~ 4 by n feet built
against hay barn filled with clover
hay and racks along the side Of barn in
shed to feed hay in to sheep. first fed
them all the clover hay they would eat
and then gave them two baskets of cut
ear corn. The next morning | gave
them one basket of corn and one at
night, with bushel Of wheat, and every
day increased the corn a little till they
had six baskets Of corn and one bushel
of wheat per day, with all the good clo-
yer hay and water they wanted.
Then | stopped increasing the corn for
80 -. u ~ W a', 80 "o' ~ W.
- - 800 1871 1,LgI - l',i "'"'
~ a., 20 .,,a -. - -. =.
w. L-'p va. 'li' I %"e'' a. t'ii" Spia0 q"
Ill ,,ni. " 80" - NV n 81, Wv, iII
80 - ~ , ''ii,. ie az
increasing IL sIowIv hut coon fpuvd
that seven basl,ots ,yos ,hoir 1ina;t
Shoa,, as o+hor s,ool, food ho+,ar 20
clean mn ,hai, faod ,hor 30 bo,,o 4. Ia
bv them fro,, ,neaI to ,naa1 ard thara
would also he mora waste Of food
Reipg onxione ia have tbo,,, oo, mona
and fatten faster tbor,bt uo,,Id ,r,,
an experiment nv CHANGING from tbraa
baskets in the morning and four at niobt
10 three baskats ,nornin, and n;,ht MI
two at noon making II eight ner day
7 fopnd tbev ate il nm clean frann neal
10 meal and were rnad,, Gov ,ba 800
This was the fret time / ovor triod Eel
ing three times n dav. and never had
better results. and was much surprised
TO see nv old ewes Law ON fat that I
Thought would hardly fatten Mt all
The corn fed was ears cut from one
half to one inch long with corn cutter
and fed in troughs set in ward. and it
weighed with cobs 40 pounds per basket
or 8 IL bushels of NET corn per dav was
what they ate from about the 25tb of
January. when mt on fpll feed till
Skinned them.
ala mn. 10. ,Lo,,, ,,o. ,,,o. 90 ,,,aa,,
from the time commenced IN feed On
stormy DAYS Lot them ont lone enoroh
to eat corn and dr;nk and then closed
them in shed, and ALWAYS closed them
in ON wet and stormy nights for 7 he.
lieve sheen as other stool do better In
a shed even thongb crowded than in
a stormy outdoors Other ti,nas 7 cave
them the ward and shed 10 RIM in
and once n yeak bon1ad n load Of
straw and bedded the entire ward which
kent IL nice and clean and no,y boya
not less than 40 TONS ~ GOOD manrra in
ward and shed
A ,yoot or 90 hosoro ;,.o,a CHI.
90 over INV shaan ana n;ro tIa SIP
clinn;no bondv no, co., ia, :, IT,,
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phasos ni - T." 10 ,ao,s , .ho
anotIar hnnohI % r. Wv" yLo 'iAo
har,n IN ~ 10 No. houlnon s,.,;t,' ~
aairu,a, onJ ,,oraho,.to a.. - asl
80 -, 90 as tn Iii -,'a,ia ~ 'sA
sbowS raotnass ond oaro -, ~ Ivy. 10y %
,ho aooLmaS,ar hnt tha III ; nv pa ~
tho hunar aats 80 t .h III Ia ne eaon
anca tonds nroh 80 sLarneui S. I h;p a.
s;ro Gov ,har and he n,;if;nni, Ia, Ia NC
to oe, Thorn baro not shinsaJ sho ap
tor Ton raors ,ritbnnt w. "a g.. h snop
cI;rned ana T hoI;oro that +tis ' Ura uvls
In ,vith ana1;tr a,d Ell Pa 49, 40
10 spr;na, tha n,arLat ana Iii - -
everv ina in ,ha too uaars A. ola