Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . more inthis than many persons imagine. IX. Pasturage for Sheep. Sheep eat a variety of vegetation other than the true grasses. Theyare fond of many weeds, and if allowed they will soon reduce the weedsthat spring up after harvest. All the pasture grasses are natural to sheep,except those, like Timothy, which close feeding is
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . more inthis than many persons imagine. IX. Pasturage for Sheep. Sheep eat a variety of vegetation other than the true grasses. Theyare fond of many weeds, and if allowed they will soon reduce the weedsthat spring up after harvest. All the pasture grasses are natural to sheep,except those, like Timothy, which close feeding is apt to kill. Bluegrass, orchard grass, the fescues, red-top, rye grass, etc., may be themain dependence for sheep; clovers they do not like so well. In pastur-ing ewes with lambs it is well to have spaces through which the lambscan pass, and yet which will not permit the egress of the ewes. In Eng-land these are called iamb creeps; this arrangement often enables thelambs to get much succulent food outside, and they do no damage tocrops. In fact, sheep are often turned into corn-fields, and other hoedcrops, late in the season, to eat the weeds, of which they are will soon clean a crop if it be such as they will not damage. BREEDING AND CARE OF SHEEP. 1045. 1046 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
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