Show PASTURES UIE ARE MUM BEST FOH st SHEEP from 10 to 14 1 4 days ays Is long enough ellough on sarre same ground dallis baits of f 1 acre it to 25 AIrn animals alpi Is mora satisfactory than seeding ing larger areas smaller lata ioia are i prepared Ire pared by y the lille states gnats department afa 0 ri culture for health luid and for or use of tin the PI li it Is undesirable to heep sheep slie tp on oil the alie same ground round more than from froin ten tell to fourteen leiis days say specialists of the united states department part ment of agriculture in discussing the question of sheep on temporary patu rv the most generally gen cral r T 11 FC MINIM I 1 V 7 z S r I 1 sheep are valuable weed destroyers and will keep fence rows hows roadways and waste places clean useful us emiil size of lot Is one acre to 25 sheep this arpa wi on ar an overage average furnished in experiments I 1 11 I 1 days feed arranging tho the size ot of lots on tle the basis of one fiere acre to 25 2 5 sheep Is 1110 morr satisfactory than seeding larger areas area and using hu hurdles rilles to per permit in it advance to fresh iced feed each day less labor Is necessary and by going to entirely new ground after ten or twelve days the danger of picking up parasite larvae on ground grazed over earlier Is prevented with a one acre lot for 23 5 ewes or correspondingly larger ones for larger flocks it Is an added advantage vantage Rd it their length Is 13 t two wo or viree times the br breadth enath with a heavy crop oi of forage that would you id last longer linger than was considered sa safe fe to hold the flock k on the same ground a short piece ot of cross cress fence can readily be put down to divide the pasture into two parts the smaller lots are also co convenient n with purebred r flocks to provide for the separate pasturing of smaller lots of mm and ewe I 1 lambs ambs movable fencing Is not likely to be sath satisfactory factory for the outside lot unless the whole area to he be used lies in a long strip with side fences when only two end plema need to bo be in place pince at one time for the ground being grazed |