Show I GOOD PROFIT IN p SHEEP S Gross Income From NevE New Nev E England Farm Flock 1047 7 Per Ewe Eve HANDSOME IE RETURNS Income Includes Receipts From Sale of Wool and ancl ands V Value of Lands An average of or 1047 47 per owe was waK the gross Income from a Sew New land farm flock lock of ot sheep la last t year Charging harg lag InS all feed ced at full market pi prices ices there remained a net profit of or per pcr ewe Tho The flock consisted of or bno one I ewes and two rams ram kept at nt the bureau of animal Industry's Morgan or nn horse I f C farm rm at atI Middlebury I Vt The figures given cover the period from August 1 1916 1915 to August 1 Th The Tho first of August was used to mark tho the bo beginning and end of the year because It Is h latest time at which farm lam lambs s should 1 be and tho the old ewes ees culled out and dl disposed of oC to put PUl the flock Clock in Sn shape shapo for the fall 1111 breeding The ewes In the flock wore were all re I Southdowns South- South downs ThA The feed teed nn and attention given on th them m was bottor than that thit commonly given ghen farm flocks nock but n not t better l' l than it la 15 i profitable to furnish The Tho Income includes receipts from frone actual salts of oC wool and Ind tho the actual market mar mar- ket Icet value of or the lambs lamba in Jul July The lambs were crp retained for COr Male ale nail and use uso for Cor bi ceding breeding and their thell value was cre credited to the account at 10 c cents per pound live weight at the farm Carm This tI figure ure was offered b by a livestock shipper when lambs of or tho samo mo class Ie Be selling II In e eastern markets ets at J I I j I j i I I I I cents per pound me JIve CoHl CoNt IM Ib Jh Divided d In August the ceding bleeding ewes ewe ran part of the lime time on small lots lot of or rape rap that had been seeded for the lambs of that sprinG Breeding Bleeding commenced commence September 10 with one fifty ewes Io From rom this l time lime until winter tho the ewes ran in two grass KraliS fields s. s One of ot these fields Ields contained eight elgh t acres and was waR used e exclusively for tor sheep The Tho etherI ether other field neill was a sixty acre horse pasture At times all of tho the owes ewes were cre In this field and at oth othor l' l times there thero wore no sheep shepp on it The Thc horses wore ere not removed 10 re- moved during the grazing gracing sea season on On Ona a fair Calr estimate the tho sheep are arc charged with third one-third the use of oC this pasture The grazing how however hower er was waR materially ll Improved e through h Ute tile killing of or weeds eaten b by the sheep but not touched b by bythe bythe the horses The Tho owea were led fed ed in Ill the barn from December 1 to April 30 JO DurIng the winter before lambing they the received about three pounds of or h hay hono one ono pound of oC and one half pound of oC grain g each per da dJ day This amount of It grain g and anet roots was considerably more moro than would be required with Ith a n. good oo supply of clover er hl hay The ha hay used was wag of low grade rade and not all of tho the throe three pounds per pOI day a placed d rl in the tho racks 8 was Wa eaten caten After lambing tho the ewes Were fed cd three fourths of a pound of grain and two pounds of or roots dall daily until turned to pasture May 1 i. i From Flock or Of the ono ewes bred bred forty forty- nine nino dropped lambs There were ere fifty fifty- nine lambs on hand han August 1 No ewes died luring during tho the year and the fifty fifty- one head he of ewes s and two twe- rams lams sheared 3 95 pounds of wool which sold at 38 cents per pcr pound No o ewe ewo wo lambs were carried over oyer to add acId to the flock lock and anel no old ewes w were ro disposed of or When hen ewe lambs are kept tc to replace old ewes their value lue is octet offset offset off oct set et by bv the sale of oC th the tho old stock an and andin andin in this year car the value alue of or their fleeces would hardly have ha equaled the cost of wintering them The young young- lambs were allowed the therun therun therun run of oC separate small pens which the ewes could not enter Grain was kept In troughs in these pens pen and the lambs I started eating when about two tuo weeks old Until April 30 the they were gl glon on on I what hat the they would eat cat which was vas at the most meat one half pound a n. day DurIn During During Dur Dur- In ing tho the three months on pasture tho the twin lambs ate 0 07 7 pounds each per day and the single ones one-half one pound each pel el dayOn day On August 1 th tho average a weight ht of or orthe the nine lambs was 72 pounds poun 8 The total returns return were as aR follows L Lambs pounds at lOc 4 Wool pounds at 1221 Total G 55 31 During tho the winter of oC 1915 16 tho the following fol fel- lowing pi prices ices were current in the countr country country coun coun- tr try in which this flock is maintained Hay Buy 11 1 per ton corn 99 cents per bushel buhel oats CO 60 cents per bushel iran bran 28 per ler ton ton linseed meal 10 iO 10 per par ton Pasture P land rents up to per acre Farago crop land ma may lie considered as costing 7 35 per acre 60 per acre acre for tho the land and 3 75 5 for tor seeding are considered to have ha a a. value valne of 4 per ton IK Ia G Good o investment nt H If all feeds used are ard charged to tC the flock at the foregoing fot prices there is left a a. net balance of 81 which is 15 4 15 4 per pr cent interest on the ewes valued valued valued val val- at 10 each E By another method the flock may be he I considered a as a means of or utilizing the fee feeds s usually marketed B By this method charges may y first b bo be made for the pasture grasses forage crops bran oil meal mal and roots th the materials for which there thoro is little or no sale or which must be bought A balance of or is th then n left It If this i is applied as though It tt were used to purchase the remaining feeds it would be he sufficient to yield a no return at nt the farm faim of or 1796 1196 Pox poi ton for fer r the ha hay fed fed 1 15 per bushel for fol the thc corn and 77 cents cent per bushel h for or tho the oats oats oats-a a price materially greater granter than could have been obtained by sellIng sellIng sell- sell Ing lug the products 13 By using a 0 better quality of ha hay than was waC used tiRed In this caso e and b by substituting substituting sub sub- silage e for tor roots a Greater margin marg-In of profit proUt would bo ho insured This years year's prices for or lambs and und wool ma manot may not continuo continue but there Is a fair tall prospect prospect pros pros- of or their doln doing so BO If It careful at attention attention at- at Is given ghen to producing a high high- grade grale of both lambs and wool the tended flock will always furnish a agOld good gOld home market for farm feeds and at the same salpe time improve the condition of 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