. The book of ensilage; or, The new dispensation for farmers. Experience with "ensilage" at "Winning ; How to produce milk for one cent per quart; butter for ten cents per pound; beef for four cents per pound; mutton for nothing if wool is thirty cents per pound. Silage; Cattle. i68 THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE. one-cross, half Cotsvvold, half merino, weighs i6o pounds; shears a very heavy fleece of very fine medium-length wool. A very handsome ewe, one which I am proud to show as a. THREE-CROSS COTSW OLD MERINO RAM, "ALEXANDER," ONE YEAR OLD. Weight 173 lbs.; sheare
. The book of ensilage; or, The new dispensation for farmers. Experience with "ensilage" at "Winning ; How to produce milk for one cent per quart; butter for ten cents per pound; beef for four cents per pound; mutton for nothing if wool is thirty cents per pound. Silage; Cattle. i68 THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE. one-cross, half Cotsvvold, half merino, weighs i6o pounds; shears a very heavy fleece of very fine medium-length wool. A very handsome ewe, one which I am proud to show as a. THREE-CROSS COTSW OLD MERINO RAM, "ALEXANDER," ONE YEAR OLD. Weight 173 lbs.; sheared. May ig, lbs. specimen of what can be produced by the use of a pure Cots- wold ram upon a little merino ewe. No. 963, one-cross, very handsome, same blood as No. 2, weighs 185 pounds, shears 9 pounds. No. 673, a two-cross ewe, a twin, weighs 200 pounds, shears 15 pounds of fine lustrous wool over twelve inches in length. Last spring she had for her first offspring a fine pair of twins, this spring she has another fine pair. She is a remarkable ewe, and attracts attention even in a flock of as fine pure-bred Cots- wolds as the "Winning ; There are millions of merino ewes in the United States. If pure Cotswold rams were used for two crosses, their value and the value of their clip would be doubled. There are only two things that prevent its being done : first, the owners of the merinos do not know the great advantages of the cross; and the next is, that there are but very i^^^ pure flocks of Cotswolds in America to obtain rams from. I shall have a number of ram lambs (pure Cotswolds) for sale in the fall. A good, strong, vig- orous lamb is just as good as an older ram for 20 to 30 ewes. I shall also have quite a number of Cotswold-merino one-cross ram lambs: they are worth more than pure Cotswold rams to use upon the common bare-bellied sheep of the South. They are large, short-legged, and covered all over with a dense fleece. Please note that these images
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