Show sheep raising sheep more than many animals cravo crave a variety ot of food and they will often go hungry kalher than eat food upon which their appetites have been cloyed the tutu turn lit in pastures of 0 sweet sweat nutritious grass of oftentimes tent lines to the rag raff weed we always hear a great deal about tat fat mutton but it Is a fact that tho the sheep Is tile tho best producer of loan lean moat that we have ono one of the bosl best sheep foods Is clover but li it should not stand till III the stocks are arc woody as in that condition the llie sheep know enough enoi igli not hot to oat the ilio stems for sheep fodder sow clover thick tho the stems will grow tine fine cut when it sets gets into full bloom and anro it well and tile sheep will oat every pun part of it peasant alfalfa wabun cut at tho right time make an excellent sheep fodder rho rhe haulm or stems of 0 beans and the pods of the same should bo be fed with ex rento caution as tho the sheep like ilia them but they at arc 0 apt to cause trouble I 1 in n the bladders of the animals sometimes bursting them timothy hay bay that has been allowed to stand until nearly ripe before cutting is unlit unfit to feed to sheep will almost imort starve to death before they will oat at it grown thick and line fine and cut just when coming into blos blossom older sheep will do airey fairly airly well on oil it too many farmers leave their ilay hay to ROI get hard and woody before cutting in which condition it loses lully fully 50 per lent cent ol of its feeding value whore shoop sheep ars are fed on very much of the carbonaceous borago they should have a portion of grain to balance up the ration when men swamp hay meadow hay timothy hay corn fodder or straw Is being fed wheat bran gluten meal or oil meal should bo be fed with them and never corn to any great extent and nover never except lit in connection with one of the I 1 ho above hural world |