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Show SECURING PROFIT IN SHEEP If Pure-Bred and Well Cared for They Pay Handsomely Need Shelter in Severe Weather. Jly sheep are pure American Merinos, Meri-nos, all registered. Two of this kind I can keep in summer or winter with the same care and feed with which one of most any other breed can be kept, says a writer in an exchange. My sheep barn is a closed building with a broad door so that the sheep can go In and out without crowding each other. The feeding racks in one room are on the outside; the other room has a double rack through the middle. I give my sheep a large run in the fall so they go into winter quarters quar-ters in good condition and never leave them out in heavy rains through the season. The breeding ewes are let out every morning in winter to eat their grain, which is oats, and to give them exercise. exer-cise. I ,feed them hay three times a day. Some only feed twice. I only give them a little at noon time, also give their pens a litter of oat straw two or three times a week. I try to have my sheep Bhorn before they drop their lambs so the little fellows have no trouble to find their first meal. The ewe that is in good condition has a good supply of milk and almost always al-ways owns her lamb. I never keep salt by them, but feed it to them once a week. I have water by them all the time. I never allow the ram to run with the ewes. The rams that are to be used are fed three-quarters oati and one-quarter wheat mixed. The young lambs in the fall and winter are fed twice daily a grain ration of oata and sometimes wheat bran hall mixed. |