Show MANAGING SHEEP IN WINTER where the weather Is severe amala shelter and food must be furnished to prevent loss even at the tar couth sheep should he provided with comfortable sheds and in those portions where snows fall and the food Is destroyed by frost hay and roots of good quality and in abundance should be furnished where the winters are severe shelter and food must be provided the sheep should be brought to the pens early in the season at the very first of the feeding season the oldest and poorest of the flock should be separated from the others and put upon higher keeping they should have grain in abundance and be made ready for the butcher as soon as possible too many sheep must not be kept in a single pen it the pens are small or the food is poor large flocks will soon become diseased and the owner will sustain a heavy loss A good shed which Is comfortably warm and thoroughly ventilated should be provided sheep can endure cold much better than they can im pure air still they should not be exposed to the action of wlad or rain and the temperature of the pen should not run extremely low small pens which are quite warm should be provided for the use of sheep at lambing time and for sheep which do not own their lambs the bottom of the shed should be kept constantly dry plenty of straw or swale hav should be used tor bedding an occasional teed of bright corn stalks will be relished by sheep and do them good it Is not well to keep breeding ewes very fat on the other hand it is simply ruinous to allow them to get very thin in flesh A variety of food will be relished and will give better results As in summer salt should be kept in a box to which sheep can have tree access |