Show phelp per acre it la Is frequently asked how many cheep beep can be kept on an acre ot of laud land prof shaw tells us that on the experimental farm last year they kept six ewes and ten lambs on one acre of land for five and a half months this however we think would be too high an estimate for the ordinary acres and ordinary management the best way to estimate any kind of herbivorous or grass eating stock Is by the pound rather than by the head there will not be a very groat great difference between the amount of grass consumed by a thousand pounds of beef horse or sheep with hogs it Is different because they are not usually dependent on grass for their feed and hence a greatly increased number of pounds can be kept per acre when hogs bogs are fed a grain ration we are of course speaking peaking of stock animals and not of eattle cattle that are kept on full feed corn and other grain and allowed all the grass crass they will eat cat exchange |