| Show A T KA s 11 f wey wiy av jn arta SHEEP HUSBANDRY DONT BE discouraged this spring many flocks will be in worse condition than in the fal fall the number of th original stock will have bare decreased while in stead of raising more lambs iambi than there were ewes there will b be e a considerable falling eff but po no man should doubt the ultimate success of undertaking to farm with sheep as one of the main sources of profit on account of such an untoward start for it is easy to avoid avold a recurrence recurrence of his chis unsatisfactory state of affairs it ia Is now time though 11 to begin and male make preparation for turning the tide of pros by crowing growing such food during the summer as will next winter force the growth of wool meat etc on the dit dif different Terent aged aril animals mais mals in proportion as Is desirable every farmer should know that it is necess necessary arv ary to separate the ol 01 oil I 1 sheep from those only partly grown op up and also the sexes are beat kept apart for the males havin having to go for mutton as soon aa as in proper condition it is profitable to stimulate and continually contrive to kep them batted fatted until they bare hare attained their fill growth which will occur in about half the time age required when they are allowed to run altogether with the store stock block by cutting cut tins lins I 1 all hay bay intended for sheep when toa toe grass grasa I 1 ia s very I 1 oung and by growing gommon commma turnips tor for the fall consumption and swede turnips for the winter the anno annoyance ance of tf witnessing wasted frames and 11 light I 1 hit fit W aces will be removed and in place thereof will exist the gratification of seeing the wool grow faster anti and flesh accumulate on all sides the only anxiety being hot lest the ewey ewes may become too fat for safe aa in however where they can be kep kept ai as they ought to be away from the rest oe of the sheep and have daily exercise eire eird ise lse au all dang dancer wet att on tin this head is obviate obviated dand dani arid arld alid then what a dire difference rence to contemplate for instead of emaciated em bodies clothed in ragged coats with a little miserable object of a lamb following each dam will be a fine blooming ewe with a covering of wool BO so heavy that she feels no cold and her lamb having an at abundance of milk from such euch a healthy source is in so thriving a state that with a continuance of this nutritious feed through every winter the ewes may have the ram alx lx earlier ao so that they may yean in it february tr y and M mircha instead ot of april and may alay and rid then those these I 1 ambs lambs can be forced on til tili they will be heavier at one year old than ethers others at two with this treat treav treatment tnt ent tut not tot ony ons y the thi ewes and lambs will be benent ted but the maturity of the sexes will be so hastened that the profit will be thus increased to an aston telling extent of course there ia is great diversity of opinion respecting the breed of e epp best beat calca calca ton tor general I 1 farming fanning eb es but there cannot be much raised against the fact of early maturity being a areat great recommendation to any kind where martn is an object equally essential aa as wool in all the english varieties this ia is a pro prominent minert characteristic and most of them mature from a it year to a year and a halt old oli and woud do eo so here II 11 treated as Rs well weil by using good rams from first rate flocks of undoubted durity of blood any one may way in a few generations bring their sheep to have all the points required and for common farming purposes to make money by selling mutton and wool tool the improvements cin can be well made entirely through the males never using une one of the cross breed but regularly going to those gentlemen for rams who make it a business to breed them the thae writer of this article when living near the Cots woid hills hilts recollects a Wel wei welshman bliman aliman nam named ed WilH aina atna coming from wales walen to a varge large arge arle farm on the said hills bringing mountain ewes with him these sheep were not worth more man than 2 each and lie he had not sufficient capital to allow ot of his selli belling dds fig them and buying such buch as were kept in the vicinity of his bis new home ile he therefore did not make any ania purchase of ecea elves but used good sorted rano rann bou boa bought bt at the annual sales of noted rain bleeders breeders bre eders and in four generations be he had bad a flock very little inferior to many of his bis neighbors his bis yearling bearlin weathers selling seiling fon lor 10 each and his wool averaging from the whole alock nock eight pounds washed per fleece whereas those be he brought with him did hot not cut cot more than two pounds thus it is in the power of every one to improve heir sheep by thi comparatively tri trl jil ill liang ing outlay requisite to gain pure blood on one side aide and the farmer using a common mongrel burl bull gety geta about 40 each for h a 9 cows we when hen he sells sell sand and dese res ves no more while hig big sheep 11 deworth re worth 5 3 being by a common grade mae male ami imi the wool perhaps will average four pounds fer ier per fleece l whrena vii vil reas by pure purchasing basing a good pure blooded blo bio odell odeil short horn buli bull and arid a good thoro thoroughbred thorough ii b bred cot CoS wold awold or other heavy coated ani animal al goo I 1 for mutton likewise as well aa as wool be he might double his dairy produce doub doublet doublette lethe be price of his bis coas cows double the quantity of wool arid ana also double doublette doub lethe the value of his sheep for mutton but nol no most 0 this magnificent continent will continue to be disfigured by miserable apologies for tor dairy cows and wretched specimens of ewes and lambs lamba and the winter feed will not vary from trouzy cornstalk cornstalks corn corna stalks talk taik and old dried up or mouldy bouldy hay bay oil oh not nol it ia is too loo much knitch trouble to grow swedish turnips and sven evea gentleman eitleman ent ieman leman of edu eju education catlon caLion and intelli intelligence ence en on other will remain blind to t the e excellence x aber zher I 1 ecce of the english bf tot farming tannin because the german germin and irish laborers they employ bave have no idea idia of cultivating roat root crops excepting by hand which of course antana entails toa too much cost to grow for teed feed country gentleman and cultivator |
