Show successful FEEDER REQUIRES PRUDENCE missouri farmer tells how sheep gains are made use of brains essential mr C G starr of missouri who buys and feeds several thousand lambs each year in a talk to Blisso missouri url sheep feeders at the university of missouri said to be a successful feeder re requires 1 more use of brains than any other line of agriculture the successful feeder must be on oa the watch for things to happen in the pens care in being punctual with breakfast for lambs will do wonders the greatest trouble we have in feeding Is to induce our partners and customers to teed feed plenty lambs really do best in dry lots when the feeding begins too late to use green blades of corn and grass they have a disposition to wander and will not stay with the feed unless more or less closely confined enough troughs should be provided tor for grain feeding so that all can get all the grain they desire the water should always be fresh and clean have plenty of it la in enough troughs so that sheep can easily drink plenty ot of corn Is always needed cottonseed meal Is very useful especially when silage Is used A pound or of silage per head per day is about enough |