The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-07-15

large yorkshire. QOuDC II SoOu
barley pork can be excelled by the
corn-fed article.
Barley should be ground before be-
ing fed to any stock, except, perhaps,
to lambs, for they have good grinders
and will usually masticate such grain
as barley we'll enough. The hulless
barley, however, have found too hard
for any kind of stock unless 1t is
ground or soaked.
1--WE have had no experience in
feeding stock on the unthreshed bar
ley, but on general principles think 1T
better to thresh it, and especially is
this so if the barley is either bearded
or the hard, hulless sort. We know OF
some farmers, however, who have OBJ
tanned good results from feeding bar
ley in the straw
The Percheron horse is said to be
the best of all breeds when it comes
to avoiding injury from barbed wire
fences, as he seems to know better
than the others the danger that turks
in the wire.
Mares that are in foal should be
sheltered we'll and allowed some ex-
ercise every day. Light and regular
work will afford the best exercise.
Oats should be fed to them in pref
erence to any other grain.
Many of the horses reared IN the
Palouse region during the past three
or four years have found their way
into the Sound markets, several car
- ;x,i,, in Cnott1n Tho demand
for good horses seems to be pretty
strong in all sections of the northwest
this year.
A. C. Tompkins, of Billings, has
contracted for the entire lamb crop
of the Sage Creek Sheep Company,
near Lewiston, Mont. The lambs will
number in the neighborhood OF $4,000
head and the price to be paid is $3.50
per head The Sage Creek company
has exceptionally fine stock and the
buy is thought to be good one.
A number of Sumas farmers have
formed a company to improve the
quality of the horses in that section.
A fine blooded French Percheron stall
lion has been secured from Cleveland,
Ohio. The price paid is $4,000. The
officers of the company are: G. W.
Lamson, president; Orion Bowman
secretary; Angus Campbell, manager.
Range sheep need closer f1eeces than
those produced on small farms to pro-
tect them against the storms or the
range country. The ranchmen seem
to require a different proportion or
wool to mutton than is presented by
most of the breeds of sheep produced,
and as a consequence many OF them
are cross bred. Ranch owners lose
vast sums of money annually by not
having pure bred sheep that will pro-
duce the type they try to produce
by crossing.
The most successful people in the
cattle business are those who keep in
touch with the markets and market
conditions and who do not depend
wholly upon market reports. The cor
porate interests own or Subsidize
certain class of cheap papers around
the stockyards and these are required
to paint dismal market conditions in
roseate colors and to exploit the top
price on the one load in thousand,
no matter how much they neglect to
show the true status of affairs on the
great bulk of the stock.
It would be out of reason to attempt
to lay down hard and fast rules as to
how many sheep should be kept upon
any farm. 1t is certainly true, how
ever, that some sheep could be profit
ably kept on nearly every farm.
Sheep not only serve to keep the pas
lures free from weeds, but they also
prove excellent scavengers for clean