Warren sheaf., 1901-08-08
sUrnER FOOD FOR CHILDREN.

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sUrlrlER FOOD FOR CHILDREN.
Full Directions Concerning a Whole-
some Diet for the Little Ones in
Warm Weather.
/. Children should have meat only
once day in summer, milk and eggs
being substituted. Any of the cere-
ais with milk, or, if these are not
liked, milk toast, or bread and milk.
or plain toast with eggs, soft boiled,
baked, shirred, scrambled, poached
or IN an omelet, make an excellent
breakfast. Fresh fish is a welcome
addition to the meal. Salt Goldfish
warmed with milk and little butter L
or made into balls with potato is a
very digestible dish. Well cooked
fresh meat. one vegetable besides
potatoes, simple pudding or ice
cream are enough for dinner. Soup
may be added, and the fruit that is
in season. With the latter use sugar.
but no cream. Baked potatoes,
sliced raw potatoes baked in milk,
creamed rice or macaroni may form
the substantial dish at supper. Fruit
may be given in moderation.-E Elisa
beth Robinson Scovil, in the Ladies'
Home Journal for August,
Sheep, Starting the Flock.
In making a beginning with sheep
in Northern Minnesota much will
depend upon the amount of previous
experience possessed by the farmer.
If he is used to caring for sheep and
understands their general require,
ments he can with more safety import
grades or even full bloods of the
improved mutton breeds. If he has
never handled sheep it would be very
unwise for him to start with valuable
animals, as with no other class of
stock will correct management give
better results and mistakes be sooner
followed by loss, than with sheep.
Common sheep are nearly all grade
merinqs, small of body and with rath-
er light feeces Of hne wool. Breeding
ewes may be obtained from such
stock at stocll:1Eards, suitable for use
'as as founlla J ~ x ts:9 flock, at much
= =. grades of the NUT
ton or larger bodied and longer
wooled sheep. By selecting them
according to the size and condition of
the teeth, none but young animals
need be secured. Where it is neces-
sary to confne them entirely to brush,
such sheep will usually thrive some
what better than would better bred
sheep, and they will clear the brush
out a little more thoroughly. These
facts and their lesser value make them
somewhat more suitable for begin
ners on new farms, than the better
grades until the farmer has gained
the necessary experience and the
farm is more developed.
But it should be the aim of every
farmer to improve the flock to grad
ing them up to the mutton type.
Merino grades usually produce and
raise but one lamb, while the mutton
breeds commonly have twins. AS
the profit of the flock lies in it's in
crease, the mutton sheep by this one
item are more profitable. Larger
carcasses and heavier feeces increase
this margin of profit. This result
can be brought about by the use of
pure bred ram of mutton breed
upon the grade merino ewes, saving
the eve lambs and continuing to
breed pure bred ram. Two crosses
will usually produce type of lamb
closely resembling the full blood.
A full grown ram will serve one hum
dred ewes, and it will pay neighbors
to combine in the purchase of such an
animal, for if grade ram is used the
results will be very much delayed.
HERMAN H. CHAPMAN.