The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-11
HE MAKES MONEY.
To Prepare Spring Lambs For Market
Next Winter.

To Prepare Spring Lambs For Market
Next Winter.
The sheep l marketed were Shrop
shire, nearly all full blooded, but not
many registered. They were all of my
own breeding and feeding. l put up to
feed on the goth of December last 112
sheep weighing then 1876 pounds aver
age, 81 of which were yearling wethers
and 81 old ewes and 10 young ewes.
fattened the old ewes on account Of age,
some being 9 years old. l kept them
thus long for their good individual quail
tiles as we'll as for good breeding. The
young ewes l culled out to better my
breeding flock as l did not like the
shape of some and the wool of others. l
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 3 weighed them again, and they
averaged l43 pounds, gain of IL
pounds in 43 days. On March 13, the
day shipped, weighed them, and
they averaged i5S pounds, a gain of 10
pounds more.in 40 days, and when sold
In Chicago the following day the 81
wethers weighed $3.50 pounds, an
average of l47 l-3 pounds, and were
sold to Armour for cents, the highest
price paid since April last. The 30 ewes
also sold to Armour for "a. 80 and weigh
ed 1870, an average of IA little over 152
pounds, and they also brought the tor
price of the day except my wethers.
On Dec. go, when l commenced tc
feed them, took them from u blue grass
pasture, sorting them from my flock of
2S5. The pasture had been rather short.
l put them in dry lot 60 by 10 feet, ex-
elusive of shed ~ by n feet built
against n hay barn filed 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 l gave
them one basket of corn and ono at
night, with q bushel of wheat, and every
day increased the corn little till they
had six baskets of corn and one bushel
of wheat per day, with all the good clio
yer hay and water they wanted.
Then stopped increasing the corn for
a few days so as to be sure not to over
feed them, as l thought the ration was
near enough Then I gradually began
to drop out the wheat and replace it
with corn, and about the end of the
third week l quit wheat and fed all
corn, seven baskets per day, yet kept on
. increasing it slowly, but soon found
!. that seven baskets was their limit.
/ Sheep, as other stock, feed better tt
L., tI,a., 10 hpu III
by them from meal to meal, and there
would also be more waste of feed
q Being anxious to have them eat more
and fatten faster l thought l would try
d an experiment by changing from three
baskets in the morning and four at nigh
to three baskets morning and night ant
is two at noon, making it eight per day
found they ate it up clean from mea
= to meal and were ready for the next
This was the first time l ever tried feed
ing three times day, and never hat
better results, and was much surprised
to see my old ewes lay on fat that
thought would hardly fatten at all
The corn fed was ears cut from one
half to one inch long with corn cutie
"a and fed in troughs set in yard, and
u weighed with cobs 40 pounds per basket
i, or II bushels of net corn per day wa
:" what they ate from about the goth G
q January, when put on full feed, till
N shipped them.
l did not let them get wet or mudd
g. from the time commenced to feed. o
r. stormy days let them out long enoug
to eat corn and drink and then close
them in shed, and always closed theI
in on wet and stormy nights, for I be
lieve sheep, as other stock, do better
shed, even though crowded. than j
q stormy outdoors. Other times CAV
them the yard and shed to run il
and once week l hauled Il load {
- straw and bedded the entire yard, whic
|, kept it nice and clean, and now hay
not less than 40 tons of good manure
In yard and shed.
A week or so before I intend to shi
/ go over my sheep and give them
clipping, A handy man can clip shee
y in ten minutes time SO You would hart
ly know it to be the same sheep and nj
J take off one-half ounce of wool. My tv
men were a day and quarter in CHI
ping the l12 sheep besides doing Il
chores, and when done they looked Ill
another bunch of sheep. There is l
harm in it. Do not horsemen, fr'uitmel
dairymen and merchants fix their stot
}. to show SO as to sell well? 1t not on
shows neatness and care on the part
the flockmaster, but the good impressiC
the buyer gets frcm their good appea
ance tends much to sharpening his d
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to get them. l have not shipped she
for ten years without its first beil
clipped, and believe that this practi
along with quality and flesh enabled L
to spring the market and sell above
Mn every time in the ten years. An @
commission man once asked me viii
in the yards with sheep, "Who mold
\ them for you?'' My sheep always ma
J money for me. breed to none but t
best of rams-generally to import
ones, never to grade ram.
/ feed my lambs in summer on OF
as soon as they will eat them and &C
tinue it till winter; then feed b;
- shelled corn with oats till spring a
then turn them on good blue grass p,
ture till fall. When year old, tn
al shear 10 to 10 pounds of wool ! fe
breeding ewes ON clover hay and &C
W. fodder and little grain toward Ian
ing time and ON till the pasture is goo
Then they get no more grain till he
winter. Iwant them thrifty and healtl
but not fat. always give them "a
- shed to stay in through winter a
spring and now have as good flock
breeding ewes as any one and will CT
tinue keeping them in spite of low pr
wool They are quiet, gentle, break
fence, eat what give them and all
weeds they find on my farm and |
mo Lattar rat1,,ns for INV labor and q