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Show OvST STOCK FEEDING ROUGHAGE TO SHEEP Rack Is Easily and Cheaply Constructed Con-structed and Is Much Better Than Throwing Feed on Ground. (By B. E. LARA.) The up-rights and cross-pieces of this feed rack are made of one by four material and Inch boards are used In making the frame and slats. The rack Is 132 feet high and cannot be tipped over easily. Many farmers prefer to have their lambs come In April or even as late as May because the weather Is more favorable then, but the man who is properly equipped to take care of his Sheep Feeding Rack. lambs in March will reap the benefit of higher prices then than can be obtained ob-tained later. It is all right to feed roughage to sheep on the ground but as a rack can be so easily and cheaply constructed U is much better to feed from them. My feed troughs are made of three boards eight feet long. The bottom one is ten Inches wide and the sides six Inches, I scatter the oats thinly In these troughs and the sheep cannot get a large mouthful. Thus better mastication of the grain is secured than if the sheep were permitted to take large mouthfuls. I have fed threshed oats to my sheep for a good many years, and have not experienced anything but the most pleasing results. re-sults. I feed oats until after lambing time, then I add about one ear of corn, shelled, to one pint of oats a day for each sheep. Nearly all the shelter sheep need In the winter time is to keep off rain and snow. I have always allowed them to stay out in the coldest weather weath-er if it was not stormy. However, I never under any circumstances allow them to take rains and snows in win ter. At this season I give them good clover hay, and In addition, a little silage sil-age or corn fodder about three times a week. I feed twice a day In the Rack Cannot Be Tipped. yard or on the ground if it is frozen, but when the ground is not frozen, I feed a little entire grain, mostly oats, to the breeding ewes. On our own farm this year, we are running them in the cornfields. At first sight this may seem to be a hazardous proposition to both sheep and grain, but such Is not the case. We have considerable corn land so that we are pasturing it only at the rate of one head to the acre. There Is very little down corn and the sheep go up and down the rows picking the tender shoots of weeds that come up despite the best of cultivation, eating off the lower blades of corn and. doing much good to the corn itself. |