Show MANAGING SHEEP IN WINT EftI where the he weather Is 1 severe ample shelter and food mut must be fur fished to prevent loss even at the far south sheep should bo be provided with comfortable sheds and in those portions where snows fall and the food Is destroyed dest royed by frost fro to hay bay and roots of good quality and in abundance would be furnished where the tho winters aro are severe shelter and foo 0 must bo be provided the sheep should be brought to the pens early in tho the season at the very first of the feeding season the oldest and poorest of the flock should bo be separated from the others and put upon high er keeping they should have grain in abundance and bo be made ready for the butcher as soon as possible apo many malay sheep roust must not be kept in a single pen it if the pens are small or tho the food Is to poor large flocks will soon become diseased and the owner will ill sustain a heavy loss lose A good shed which Is comfortably warm and thoroughly ventilated should bo be provided sheep can endure cold co d much better than they can impure air still they should not bo be exposed to the action of wind or rain and tho temperature of the pen should not run mn 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 abed should be kept constantly dry plenty of straw or scalo hay bay should be used for bedding an occasional teed feed 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 to simply ruinous to allow them to get very thin in flesh A va biety of food will bo be relished and will A thrifty trio give better results aks in summer salt should be liepa in a box to which sheep can have free access |