The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-12-20

SNtS crop. but You must care Tor
your land, your feed. IND yonv stock
as YOU would or Your money and Your
children. You must apply as much care
and orethought. and be rs saving ami
economical az Your good housekeeping
wives are in caring and providing for
the wants and necessities Of Your fami-
lies.
Take good care Of your liv, stock treat
them all gently and kindly. provide for
them III abundance. give them a home
all the year ound. keep Your land Ill
| good heart With their manure farm well
and see how much more thrift You crops
and your animals will show. and how
much they will show their appreciation
Of their home. and how wei they will
adapt themselves To THEN surroundings
producing III their poSterity 4 type not
found on any other farm.
1t is well settled in old England that
no two farms Will produce tlocks Of an
exact similar type of sheep, and that 10
two farms. with their fiock>. can Ec
managed alike: this is So we'll under
stood that in Scotland and the north of
England. il has been Il question if some
| provisions should not be made by Par
Lament looking towards maintaining per
manently the flock Of breeding ewes IA
q fixture Oh the farms, while the tenants
o rOccupants of such farms changed SO
as To afford them continuously the adj
vantage Of the same conditions.
| mention this toe show YOU how Ne
ccssary it is, in their minds. 10 gi,e alut-
ton sheep the same care. feed. and CON
ditions to make them profitable ftar
having had 50 many years Of experience.
and success in breeding and rllsiay the
hest mutton Sheen in Tho wo1lJ
Can YOU afford to ignore such al c&-
ample. such 4 lesson: OF if you ,lrt
to raise mutton sheep with a profit.
In on. experience 1T Bellevue, We
found that none of the OLD sheep We
bought became 50 fully ~rcconciiel to
the surroundings We afforded them. ana
adapted themselves so we'll to them as
their pOsterity are doing. for while III i
| years time, with the frequent working
and handling they received they became
very tame and would readily come to
the call of the shepherd, they still con
| tinued to show their nervousness IL the
presence of any one. and always seemed
i'll fear of bodily injury. apparently hay
ing no confidence III any one and mis-
trusting all their surroundings.
The sheep born and raised at Belle
vue are Very different. although the
S~outhdowns. and their crosses. are noted
for readily accommodating themselves
to most any changes. l still think that
the breeding and rearing of these sheep
on the place has much to do with their
being so entirely at home among their
surroundings.
The disadvantages we experienced
with the old scrub native sheep would
not hold good. to the same extent, where
yol,1.r -, = o,. owes w,rp taken from one
place or farm to another, especially if
they are of !, breed that readily adapts
itself to new surroundings: but older
sheep, like older people, cannot 50
readily adapt thcmSclypS TO new sur
roundings and be 50 we'll contented.
| think a ~Southdown Eve. three OF
four years old. taken from a farm III the
fall, after she IS with lamb, to some
other farm, and then treated. will be-
come perfectly reconciled with the yean-
ing Of her lamb. and do Just as we'll as
if She had been raised there: but older
sheep, and especially the native old
scrubs. are not SO easily reconcIled to
new quarters.
The native sheep We gathered III at
Bellevue five years ago. would leap Il ten
rail fence without much effort or provo.
cation: the Southdown grades, born and
raised there, could not be driven. or
coaXed with feed while ever SO hungry.
over Il four-rail fence. all because they
nave been raised differently. and from
birth treated and cared for uniformly III
a very different way.
In breeding your owes YOU must. TO
Get the best results hayc them in good
healthy and thrifty condition., and YOU
must stand your rams-that is. YOU must
not allow them to run with your ilocks-
keep them separate. fix on the time YOU
want your ewes to find their lambs. then
couple them in time to accord.
Place each eve singly Will the ram.
and after being served once, remove
her and never overwork your ram by
giving him Il large number of ewes 4
day; in short. use him exactly as YOU
would Il horse. This will give You COM
llete control of the mating aud the time
of lambing. which should be TO meet Il
good bite of grass in the spring; III our
section the best time and plan is from
the 10th OF April to the 10th of May,
on grass in the open field.
Then give the eve ana the lamb the
proper care and feed. and nave the lambs
ready for the market after the LIST OF
December; if properly cared for and fat.
Your stock will then bring YOU the best
prices. and leave YOU the most proht.
ouI HUN vi ~ hift
Southdown lambs will turn out 4 large
proportion Of good profitable feeders
weighing from 20 to 100 pounds by LIST OF
December. with 4 few at times running
over Il hundred. Much heavier lambs
the market will not take and pay best
prices for. Drivers and butchers. how
ever. prefer the largest. because they can
usually scale Il larger margin with them
for themselves. but the raiser selling I'll
rect to consumers does not wan them.
What you want is Il good, strong,
blocky lamb that is Il good healthy feed
or. then stuff it from the day of its birth
with @ood substantial food. and YOU Will
have something worth Offering when the
mutton market opens; 4 large mi as
LACE goes. is never 4 good profitable feed
er and will not work up to Il l'rGfl'able
carcasSS for the farmers and feeders.
1t is Il question if there IS not more
money in keeping and raising all the
owe lambs for breeding. and in this way