The Delta independent., 1909-11-05
a beet field Of lops and tops for this

a beet field of lops and tops for thi
food contains great percent of water
The grain should be given gradually
after the sheep have had the run Of
the fields for few weeks and in this
way they can be brought onto the
grain ration without any grief. 1t is q
good plan to run part of the day on the
harvested beet field and then turned in
onto the grain stubble and the little
grain they pick up in this way will not
hurt them any.
In feeding test with some fancy
sheep by one of the cauliflower pro-
fessors of an agricultural college the
Cotswolds made the most and cheapest
gam, the Lincolns and Leicestsrs close
ly followed, the Southeowns and Shron-
shires stood third, the Dorsets fourth.
Oxfords and Suffolks fifth and the
Merinos last. If this fellow had bee n
practical man and had known as much
FEEDING as any old shortgrass farmer
out in this country the order would
have been transposed like the biblical
implication in which the last became
first for we always get our best resulss
with the worst scrub of a Merino lamb
which had previously never seen any
thing good to eat. .
Eastern feeders have discovered that
our range lambs have some decided ad-
vantages over their natives for feeding
purposes. Most prominent of these are
uniformity and freedom from internal
parasites. The matter of uniformity y is
very important for tine feed lot for two
reasons: First, a lot of such feeder
lambs will develop into more nearly
uniform fat lambs than will a lot of
feeders of mixed breeding, size and
quality. When sent to market lambs
that are very markedly uniform are
more attractive than a mixed lot. The
matter of internal parasitic infection is
one which has given untold trouble to
breeders of native lambs but which has
not yet appeared among range lambs.
Lambs have beome such prime prop
erty IN the lower end of the San Luis
valley that they are readily bringing
50. 90 per cwt. One association down
there has already purchased 35, OOOhesd |
to go in upon the pea fields and the
sheep are already arriving. The heavi-
est single feeder is the firm of Seth &
Jones, who are putting in 10, 600 head /
at Monte Vista. These lambs will be
to feed upon the pea fields for
from seventy to ninety days. From ten
to htteen lambs are fed on an acre and
they are expected 10 make an average
gain of ten pounds When first turned
into the fields where the vines and peas
are ripe the lambs shell great many
Of the peas, but later there are all very
readily picked up SO that only a very
small percentage is wasted.
The question of feeding is quite as
important as that of breeding to secure
good results. Did you ever consider
now much sheep will eat when on good
'ange amply supplied with good hay
md how little they can exist on during
dry season or when feed is short?
Did you ever notice the difference be-
ween lamb raised on a short range
md the pets we often see around the
'anches in the fall? Not more than a
week ago We saw a halfbreed lamb
lown IN Weld county-a poor orphan
whose mother died before it was
month old-which weighed fully l2O
'ounds. About the same time 1850
ange lambs of the same breeding and
bout the same age were shipped in
rom New Mexico that would not aver
ge over forty-tive pounds. The differ
nee In value at FIVE cents a pound
'ould be S3.75. This difference was
ue entirely to the feed.
The man who is carrying on diver
flied farming cannot keep one COW for
ach acre of land he tills but a dairy
ian can do so and many of them do.
hey do not raise all the grain used but
It their neighbors do it for them. They l
now that they can purchase grain for .
ne hundred cents on the dollar snd
nat their good dairy cows will return
~o dollars in product for every dollars
'orth of feed. They can better afford
spend their time in caring for the
ows than in raising the grain. Out in
,is alfalfa country the man with forty
ood dairy cows on forty acres of land
an furnish all the roughage required
lie year around. He can not afford to
i've his cows pasturage but this is the
ost expensive feed ANYWAY unless a