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Show be so easlTj" it Is much betterri My feed troughs I boards eight fe. ' - y"bott72T one is ten inche&"widVStithe Bides six inches, I scatter the oats thinly in these troughs aMd the sheep cannot gt 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 "'-j'l'Tl''" 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 weatherif weath-erif it was not stormy. However, I never under any circumstances allow them to take rains and snows in winter. 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 twica a day in the Rack Cannot Bo 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 Bhoots 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, regardless regard-less of the benefit to the sheep. As a preventive to them eating the grain, though they never have acquired ac-quired the habit, we feed a small amount of oats at the barns every morning and night. Our object in feeding grain is two-fold. To keep them In good flesh and to get them to come to the barns morning and night for tho inspection of the ram. An acre of rape too is very good. Sow seven or eight pounds per acre. |