The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
About Sheep and Goats.


One or two bushels Of cottonseed
winters a goat in good order.
Do not keep too many sheep; keep
only the best, and handle them with
care.
1t is hardly to be expected that a
eve over five years old will be good
breeder.
Rye gives good sheep pastures.
gives it early. and sheep do better
with variety of food.
Even hogs do not do well in filthy
surroundings, and with sheep clean
Illness is a much stronger point.
Old sheep pastures may be SO full
of parasites that profit from young
lambs grazed on them will be i'm
possible.
Increase in weight can be gotten
with sheep very cheaply if gotten
while they are lambs. The big mar
kets pay long prices for early lambs,
also.
There is a very wide difference in
the amount of the fleece that can be
sheared from different strains of An
CORA goats. Learn what kind you are
buying.
A good woven wire fence with
which some barbed wires are used
will do much to keep dogs and wolves
out of the pasture, but it will not
always keep them out.
If sheep are not changed to new
pastures, the land will become infest-
ed with parasites till there will be so
many sick sheep that there will be
little profit.
Do not cross one kind of pure sheep
on another pure breed, but grade up
the native flock by the yearly use of
pure-bred ram and always have him
of the same breed.
When comfortable quarters for
sheep can be had at such small cost,
it is unwise to let these money-mak-
ers remain exposed to the cold winds
and soaking rains Of winter.
Select males of good quality and do
it every year 1t will double the in
come from a flock of native sheep,
and it is much more pleasant to
pocket two dollars in the place of
one.
If goats are not kept where they
can do no harm, they may be nui-
sances They find just as much pleas
ure in eating young cotton stalks
or SHINING a fruit tree as they do in
destroying weeds.
Feed and breed sheep for early
maturity of the lambs. Whether a
lamb is to be sold when two months
old or is to be kept longer, remem-
Der that developing it rapidly during
the first eight weeks after it is born
means good returns.
Some have pronounced goats
failure in clearing up brush land, be-
cause small number did not kill
the brush on a large acreage in one
year. Too much was expected.
Brush may put out new growth more
than once after the buds have been
eaten off, and the goat must have an
opportunity to eat the buds often
enough to stop further growth.
Goats prefer weeds to grass; and
a pasture with a few goats in it will
carry more horses or cattle than the
pasture would without the goats, if
there are not so many goats that they
destroy all the weeds and brush
quickly and have to eat grass that the
larger stock prefer. 1t is not hard to
see that if weeds and bushes are kept
in control more grass will grow.
A net wire fence is better than any
other for goats and sheep. Have the
netting two feet or two feet and half
high, in addition to about four barbed
wires. Four barbed wires can be put
on top, or three on top and one be-
low. The latter arrangement is bet
ter when the fence may be used where
hogs might try to work under. No
kind of small stock will get into so
much trouble or do themselves so
much injury if woven wire is used in
part, as if the whole fence is made of
barbed wire.-Progressive Farmer.