Show KEEP THE SHEEP DRY wet ewe Is not likely to do her best for owner greatest damage resulting from wetting Is discomfort following watertight water tight shed will prove quito satisfactory by E HENDERSON A few days ago while returning from our home town I 1 was struck by the ead and forsaken of a flock of sheep subjected to beat ing rain their backs were humped up their heads drooping and the general ap bearance pe arance gave the impression that they were the victims of a careless and thoughtless farmer it Is true that the fleece of a sheep Is quite long and dense and in an ordinary rain it Is quite improbable that the fleece should become thor hughly saturated but it Is also true that all rains are not ordinary ones and we can never tell just when one of these beating driving rains will come to cause misery to the ewes and loss to the farmers pocketbook it Is at once apparent that the wet ewe Is not one to do the best tor her owner As long as she la soaked she will not graze or it she does it will be only enough to furnish the actual needs of the body southdown Is good breed this Is not enough the breeding ewe should secure more feed than maintenance requires if she Is to do well for her owner she must be con gaining in flesh probably the greatest damage re suiting to a ewe on account of a rain Is the discomfort that follows the wetting think how unpleasant it Is to work in wet clothes how much worse it Is therefore for the ewe who Is naturally of a tender nature to undergo the discomfort resulting from carrying around a damp fleece in the summer time when it Is warm it la bad enough but in the winter it Is awful the fleece being very dense it Is days before the water will entirely evaporate then the greatest amount of the evaporation Is caused by the heat of the animal a body just try to think of the heat hecei sary to evaporate the large amount of water that a thoroughly saturated fleece would hold many sheep have caught colds from this very cause that resulted in inflammation even worse catarrh rheumatism Is often one of the re suits and a sheep once the victim of this disease Is of very little value what then la the remedy it Is simple provide your sheep with dry shelter close to their pasture it need not be a costly barn A shed Is plenty good enough provided it Is water tight and it need not be especially warm it it Is only dry |