The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-05-31

4 ing themselves ' t.
success of it, and therefore III !"
measure at least the briefest account y,
his venture will suffice for the s'orioS u
the ventures of the others
In the fall when Mr.. Bingham mace
his first venture with western iano'
some fourteen years ago, he began Win
the purchase of but single huhoreo
He fed these through the winter
MANFRED his fields with the droppln@s'
and sold the lambs in the spripg at d
good profit. He had not been com
PEELED to buy feed for them as ne mao
raised enough on his own farm. Inc
venture turned out so satisfactorily
that the next fall he purchased between
three and four hundred lambs and 1ed
them with even more satisfactory 10
suits. The next year he repeated the
success of the preceding years on a
still larger scale by buying and ieeoing
seven hundred. He soon began TO give
up the breeding of Shropshires and TO
devote almost his entire attention, SO
far as sheep raising and feeding was
concerned, to the feeding OF these
western lambs and has continued at
this work every winter since that time.
He extended his feeding barns until he
had feeding capacity for nearly
twenty five hundred lambs a. one time
The largest number which he ever fed
in a single winter was fed two years
! ago, in the winter of 1898 80, when he
fed some five thousand sheep, buying
an exceptionally large lot early in
October and selling the most of them
early in the winter and buying again
quite as heavily and selling late in the
spring. During the winter which has
just ended he fed some seven hundred
fifty number considerably less than
was fed by number of other feeders
| who have also been in the business for
Il number of years. In spite of the
varying degree of profit which different
years have brought to him Mr.. Bingham
says that he does not believe that he
ever fed any year without doing so at
| profit.
Mr.. Bingham has fai IN of 100 acres,
| all of 1t, according to one of his neigh
bors 'as rich as market garden"
The land lies in as pretty shape as a
farm could lie and the house and build
ngs are of the most commodious kind.
The amount of barn space can be seen
to a certain extent at least from these
| figures. He has two sheep sheds-and
by the way there is probably not
another place within good many miles
where sheep shed can be found which
| is finished on the inside in hard oil as
one of these is-one of them, lOOx56,
and the other 60x20 feet There is a
| horse barn 30x40 and grain barn with
| basement stable 44x100 feet in size.
Besides having grain and coarse feed
| enough to feed all of his stock and
sheep during the past winter without
having to buy any feed, his hay crop of
last year was so much in excess of his
needs owing to the richness of his soil
alone. His hay crop for the present
| year bids fair to exceed that of last year.
Such in brief is the account of the
industry and the equipment it demands
and helps produce as shown in the ex.
perience of the pioneer in the business,
but with slight notifications it is the
same story which has been repeated in
the experience of more than score of
his neighbors.
To 60 into details concerning the
work of all of these would i'll an entire
volume, even the scattered facts and
general information which the repre-.
sentative of The Owosso TIMES who
visited the country few days ago, for
the whole of one rainy day, would fill
several pages of this paper if told in
full. Only the briefest, and in most
cases undoubtedly the most unsatis-
factory, notes can be made of other
farms which would be we'll worth an
entire article by themselves alone. In
the case of others which are only
mentioned with the approximate
number of sheep which they have fed
during the year just passed, for the last
of the carloads of sheep were in most
cases shipped week ago, it must be
borne in mind that the lack of time and
space alone prevents fuller mention,
but that all that has been said about
the growing fertility of the farms in any
one case applies TO all the rest in pro-
portion to the number of sheep which |
they have been feeding and the number |
of years during which they have been |
fed. If it had been possible to make an |
inspection of each of these who are |
mentioned of course an article of much |
greater local interest would have been
the result-but 1t would take volume.
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