Show NOTES OF THE SHEEP FOLD Time The mUll maui who goes oc Into the sho sheep p business hUll has a reasonable assurance that good prices for or million and und wool I will iIii continue for or boino lime Much of ot tho the business of feeding sheep must be he learned by b associating with the iho stock and timid studying their hub hab its It and characteristics The most careful titan man will wll devote much to lo tile iho stUd of or hula his sheep and Hill It Is I for a C mUll man without experience to undertake e ito Iho sheep busl busi lucas on Oil a large lurge scale eale The Tho safest way iia Is s Jo to buy UI ly tivon o choice owes eI J tumid and an un excellent rum and your o education with wilh a minimum amount of o expense Pasture that Ihal in is ideal l eal for cattle will not nol bo 10 Ideal for sheep Sheep will thrive bOiler better on shorter and und lIner finer than thun on coarse coar C grasses There Then are aro Hr vory ur Ir rw fob f w farms hut but what would be better by living a n tea few cw sheep on them Ilium i I crop However I prefer pr Cel earlier sow ox lug Ing There Thoro aro three principal varieties S grown viz Iz The Tho old variety arlot Japanese so and Silver Hull buckwheat Tho Jap Japanese anese Is a much larger grained variety arlet than Iho tho Silver Sliver Hull Huh and usually yields more bushels tier per acre The Sliver Hull IB is a much plumper grained variety and weighs several L pounds per bushel hushel heavier h ller than the thu i Japanese variety About Aboul one bushel IK It the right amount to sow per lor acre drilled In with HiO to Ibs lbs per aero acre of oC a good grade fer ter fertilizer A Rave gave ave best beat results for or money Invested but bill other ors era may rna give Sho results on other soIls The yield varies front from 10 to 40 O bu biu per pCr acre Buckwheat is harvested d and set Rot up In small mall bunches In the field until It dries then bout It Il Is IB usually threshed with witha a ii 1 common threshing machine with the tho th tooth or a part of them removed front from rom tho the and smooth boards put In their thud places This Is 15 necessary Rn In order to prevent cutting up imp tho grain Tho llie buckwheat buche t should hould be drawn dra n direct from tho the field fied to tho In order ordel to avoid waste front from rom shattering I Besides being valuable for making buckwheat flour the tho grain Is a ll t valuable I stock stoel feed which contains a nutritive I ratio of oC 1 I to lo 7 i Tho rite straw strai tra w Is i Ichor In III food elements clements than most cereal straws straits a moderate quantity will be te relished hed by cattle clUla mil amid houses It has ha a rather laxa tie the effect on stock tock stocke We e have succeeded In getting hotter heLter sets lets of oC clover and grass with buck buckwheat buckwheat buckwheat wheat than with any ilO an other crop and tho the ground Is ls left eft freo front from weeds All AU of the experiments at aL the time Ne Xe braska station slit t Ion have havo shown that pro protein pr tout tein foods food can bo 10 produced upon the farm arm in the form of o alfalfa hay h has at mit about half the cost of such food con constituents when purchased In lit the form forni of commercial foods Jhn farmer who whim takes advantage of this knowledge tumid and grows rows his hi protein upon lImo llio forum ac ae accomplishes the tho double result of making akin largo large profits upon lila his tattle cattle feeding f 1 operations and Inri of very vo Ar greatly 4 fag ing In the of his lila soil soli by b I Ith the th same I There Is 13 i a n difference between a fat Cot at s cow and one Ol in itt good d yielding cl condItion I Ic r ri i c r |