Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-01-30
fro DEAL WITH FIGHTING RAMS
Let Them Work on Their bad TEN,
per, Disabled from Doing
Harm.


some stif fights Every ram thinks
he is the boss and he is determined
10 clean up the other fellows. it
might be funny II It did not so often
result In fatalities. So many rams
are killed at this season. No ami
mails fight with more obstinacy. IL
is very important to know how to
handle these rambunetious chaps.
Two methods have given good sue
cess. One Is to put them In very
small pens. so that they cannot run
back far enough TO cause great in
jury and keep them thus until they
have become friends. The other
method has given universal salts
faction. Tie the rams together two
and two with short pieces OF rope.
Thus hampered no one ram is free
enough TO land a very hard blow on
any of his opponents. After a week
or more they may be loosed, and
they will Craze together in peace.
recall very amusing expert .nce
In connection with this method a
few years since. A widow, who
handled Dorsets. wrote me In great
distress that her rams were fight.
ing all the time: two had been killed |
and several injured. and she had |
fastened them up in the stable to
keep them through the winter.
wrote her OF this plan. but she
did not think Il would work
thought | was joking In the early
spring | was passing her station and
stopped to see her sheep. was
surprised to find her rams all pen
ned mp in small rail pens with just
room enough TO move around con
veniently, and they surely did look
haggard and mad and mean. After
| had had one look az one sullen
chap with depressed countenance
and bloodshot eyes declared
would set them free. She declared {
they would kill each other. told i
her would be responsible for all ,
losses II she furnished good ropes
and man 10 catch the wrathy ras- I
calls for me. After deliberation she {
agreed. We proceeded TO the barn I
yard. and selecting two fellows that 7
seemed equally ugly and vicious '
ordered them brought forth. fas- I
tened the rope on the neck OF the s
first one and as I waited for his
comrade 10 be brought up | saw him
for battle 10 was hard 4
10 hold those two rams until we got
he ropes tied, and then let them go.
We mounted the fence 10 see the
fun. A good hunch in the ribs and
an the latent ire that belongs TO a
,aged Dorset ram was aroused. He
stood on his hind feet and paved
ne other ram in the face. where up- n
ln tho assaulted ram smote him In "a
he belly. and down he went on his :,
back, while the ram that struck him b
gas dragged down with him They
yallowod about In the dust for some n
minutes, not being able 20 agree on A
he exact moment OF rising Mean
while their anger was waxing hot.
When they did set 20 their feet they a.
we're frothlng az the mouth and b.
peaking murder from their lurid q.
yes. Both tried 20 run back. AMI 4,
simultaneously the ropes cut their i,
find on and they fell to their knees,
D rise paving wildly az each other. -
hen In desperation one started 20 i.
an away. but this he couldn't do
ithout the others consent, Finally
hey festoOned themselves around a
ate post, and We went after the n
theirs. In few minutes We had VI
Va pairs of tumbling writhing
-eaiures out there In the barnyard
remember one queer pair did
ost peculiar stunt The one was
nall chap that seemed paralyEed
ith fear when he found he was
,ked 20 a vicious moRster( aud he S''
a the Nisest thing OF all-he just vi
8 down The big one couldn't puu OF
m up because q chokod him down, DO
ID after several yanks be backed VIC
, 20 the PROSTATE ram and sat 10
'Wn ON him. aud there they re- 4"
aimed In that most dramatic pos pia
re- Tor many minutes. Meantime pa
her things were transpiring in 9TH sq'
quarters Down there by the s''
te post the hrst two had drawn on
articles of agreement between NE
emselvcs. but they could not resist o.e
e temptation 10 land on an an duI
her struggling pair thar were ap- Vel
oaching They. strange 10 say. sen
cktd together. h was noble TO aet az