The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-05
For the Farm
= Fireside
Communications from Farmers on matters of
interest will be given space with pleasure.
Go Easy With the Ewes.

Did you ever see terrified crowd or
people rush, jam, crowd and trample
over each other when frightened at the
cry of fire or any other sudden alarm?
We can hardly pick up a paper that
there is not an article telling of a panic
stricken crowd trampling each other
to death. If mankind with all its
claim of superior reasoning power will
do these things, should we expect more
of brute creation.
Yet how often we have seen men rath-
er than to take the time to drive their
flocks and herds quietly to or from the
fold, set the dogs on them for that pur-
pose, and in most cases the dog drives
the frightened animals through field
and yard gates or barn doors where
many are injured and some perhaps
trampled to death. Others will count
it sport to see their dog run cattle or
sheep, especiallyif the latter belong to
someone else, and If called down will
tell you, 20! my dog woulden't hurt
them, he just >chases them for fun"
You may think it impossible that
such men exist, but there some in every
community who use no more reasoning
in treating their own or other peoples
stock 1t is the same class of men
that go deer. hunting and kill people;
that drive through the farmers grain
to shoot his chickens; tear down his
fences to get in; steal. his fruit and
garden products that he has cared for
and raised to provide for his family.
There may be some, however, who
do some, or all of these things, not
because of a desire to injure anybody,
but because they have never given the
matter thought.
We wish to say to these persons that
setting a dog on a flock of sheep may
not kill any outright at that time, but
some are sure to get hurt more or less,
which will result in loss to their own
ers. The quieter they are allowed to
feed and are moved when necessary
the better will be the result
Through the last months of winter
and late spring is the time when the
ewes need their grain the most When
the weather begins to grow warm they
will not eat as much roughage even
though of the best, as they will when
it is colder, and they need the grain
more as the season advances until grass
has got a sufficient growth. In local.
tiles where on account of the deep
snows,or for some other cause, they
have been kept in close quarters for a
long time, they should be given as
puch range as possible to restore that
strength and vigor that is so essential
to the welfare of the offspring, but
they should not be allowed to wander
too far at first, as they may get ex-
hausted. In feeding grain in troughs
or racks, there should be enough of
these so that they will not crowd to
much.
When wool is high every pound
counts. When it is low it takes every
pound to count. Where are those feed
ersand others that thought last fall
that feeding would be overdone? We
feel like saying, II told you So" and
repeating that the sheep could not be
had to over stock the market. Neither
can an over stock be had for year
or to come, at least if other indus
tries are thriving SO that there is the
usual amount of wool and mutton con-