The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-01

and Home Nature has provided the COW
ering for their bodies that protects them
from wind and cold. Sheep will not lie
down in mud. and no matter how warm
and commodi0us the barn, unless clean
and dry, they will seek knoll or dry spot
of earth, no matter how fierce the Storm
So when we say a dry place for them
to stand or lie down, as nature suggests
that covers the requirement for shelter
Confning them to Enclosures Is less dill
cult than is generally supposed. never
knew sheep TO attempt jumping barbed
wire. II is a common mistake 10 build
fences too high and not low and close
enough. / believe a flock of sheep that
have never been taught to climb or creep
can be successfully restrained with -FOUR
barbed wires, properly strung and kept
taut. Their wool is such a protection 10
them against the viciousness OF the barbs
that when taught TO creep the building
of impregnable fences becomes neces-
sity.
While sheep require but inexpensive
winter quarters, says H. NJ KirkpatrlcK
of Wyandotte county. Kansas, in the
Modern Sheep. their protection from the
heat and flies of summer is a matter OF
greater importance. This opinion may not
be generally held, but ! consider a cool
shade, a cool, dark place for them in sum-
mer, of more value than the most eXpen-
sive barn. If you have a thicket of brush
or wooded spot especially II well grain
ed, save it if you contemplate ever rals-
ing sheep. The price of one good eve in
200 will buy bells enough to amply pro-
tect that many ewes from the depreda-
tons of both dogs and wolves. Up TO four
years ago we had more or less trouble
every year from both dogs and wolves,
Notwithstanding we live within the shades
Of the smoke of a great city. We beIed
50 per cent. of our ewes, later Is per cent,
and have never known of any loss or an
attempted attack.
Stagnant water is the best vehicle for
conveying the parasites that infest sheep.
II YOU have not an abundant supply Of
clear. pure water easy of access for
sheep, we hasten to advise you not 10
attempt sheep raising Low, marshy or
spouty land is an abomination TO the
fiCckmaster; but Kansas is so free from
this character of land that the caution
seems uncalled for.
Sheep, as well as other live stock love
a greater variety of feed than they usu-
ally get. but sheep especially are fond OF
change and variety, even unto apparent
fickleness. They adapt themselves quick
ly to a change of conditions, and no mat
ter how luxuriant the pasture, they will
leave it daily and frequently 20 nip the
sprouts and eat the weeds-in fact l have
sometimes thought that the more good
grass they eat the more noxlous and bitter
weeds they will consume. Thus by chang
Ing them to different fields. by turning
them, especially the lambs, into the corn
fields after you have laid them by, or
into the clearing when the sprouts are
young and tender. they will thrive and
wax fat; and, unless the size of your farm
is greatly in excess of the size of your
flock, two blades of grass will grow whoee
one grew before. and you will have 20
mark the price of your land up in order
10 keep it, The profits will be, or should
be. 100 per cent, with fighting chance
for more. The fleece always has paid,
and will now more than pay the cost of
keep