The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-11-21
SHEEP and HOGS
EASY TO MANAGE
Require Little Capital, Equipment or
Labor-Unrivaled as Consumers
of Wastes.

Sheep can be successfully wintered
with smaller use of grain than is
needed for other live stock. If in
good condition at the beginning of
winter and given the right kind of
hay they can be carried through the
winter without grain unless the lambs
are to be dropped before going to
pasture. All depends upon the kind
of hay or other roughage used.
Legume hays stand at the forefront
as roughage for sheep. No other
approach them in feeding values The
coarse-stemmed hays like timothy,
red top and blue grass, have very
few leaves, and therefore. are poor
sheep feeds. Hays having a large
amount of timothy in them also are
undesirable. Not only is timothy un-
palatable to the sheep, but it causes
serious cases of constipation. The
dry timothy heads work into the skin,
lesscning the value of the clip and
making shearing difficult. When tim
| othy or other coarse-st -stemmed hay is
fed to sheep in winter quarters it
becomes necessary to use some sup
Elementary feed to keep the sheep in
condition.
If any non-legume had is fed, sup
Elementary protein feed is needed,
Linseed meal is good, since in addi-
tion to furnishing protein it counter
acts the constipating effect of timothy
hay. From one-quarter to one-half
pound of linseed mead per eve daily
should be used, depending upon the
size and condition Of the animal and
the other feed used.
In an experiment conducted at the
Missouri station the relative values
of clover and timothy hays for Win
tering ewes were determined. Fifteen
ewes fed 2.9 pounds timothy hay and
0.35 pound grain per head daily lost
7.6 pounds each during the same time
that another lot receiving the same
weight of grain and clover hay gained
6.5 pounds. The fourteen ewes fed
clover hay droped sixteen strong
lambs, while those fed timothy drop
ped eleven strong and five weak
lambs. The lambs from the ewes fed
clover hay gained more rapidly dur
ing the first thirty days than did
those from the ewes fed timothy hay.
Save the Sows.
Selling brood sow at this time.
according to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, is like kill
ing the goose that laid the golden
eggs.
When pork is selling at 18 cents or
more a pound on 'of, the hog
breeder may be temp. ed to turn into
cash all that he can Sell; vet the de-
partment points out that the value
OF brood sow which will produce
such high-priced offspring is propor-
tlonately increased and she should be
kept as the source of urthcr and fu-
ture profits.
Breeding stocks are being depleted,
and the department says that the sit
uation is already critical and threat
ems to become very serious if the
country continues to be drained of its
meats. Hogs furnish meat more
quickly and cheaply than other stock
, can; the meat shortage, therefore, can
most readily be met by swine produc-
ton. 1t has been calculated that the
possible increase from one SOW is
LOOP pigs in four years, on the sup
position that all littcrs consist of six
pigs, that all live, that half are
females, and that each gilt should
farrow at one year and every six
months thereafter.
Another cause of the depletion of
breeding stocks is proably in the
high cost of feeds. While concen-
trated feeds have gone up, the de-
partmcnt says that some of the ex
pensc of carrying breeding stocks
may be cut down by the use of green
rail- forage crops, pasture, alfalfa or
clover hay. Brood sows may be main
tanned in fair condition at compara-
lively little expense by the use of
such feeds. In brief, the department
strongly recommends campaign to
save the sows as one means of helm
ing to meet the threatened meat
SHORTAGE