American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . nd he wants them to yield him as much wool each year as 1132 THE AMERICAN FARMER possible without detracting from their value as mutton. Remember, we are speaking of agrade flock now, with no thoroughbreds except the rams that are used. No better cross canbe first used on the common ewes, it matters not what quality is most desired, than a Merinoram. It will add from one to two pounds of wool to each lamb, and will give a healthy andthrifty flock of half-breed ewes to breed from
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . nd he wants them to yield him as much wool each year as 1132 THE AMERICAN FARMER possible without detracting from their value as mutton. Remember, we are speaking of agrade flock now, with no thoroughbreds except the rams that are used. No better cross canbe first used on the common ewes, it matters not what quality is most desired, than a Merinoram. It will add from one to two pounds of wool to each lamb, and will give a healthy andthrifty flock of half-breed ewes to breed from. With these to start on, it is an easy and pleas-ant task to shape the flock as desired. If a longer staple, a heavier fleece, and a larger carcassare desired, then a Cotswold ram should be used until the desired standard is reached; if, onthe other hand, mutton is the object, use a Southdown ram on the half-breed !Merino of these objects, wool or mutton, can be bred on a flock quicker by using direct on thescrub ewes a ram of either of the breeds mentioned, but in doing this we would get the hardy. IMPROVED KENTUCKY SHEEP. Brud by Col. Robert W. Scott, Fraukfort, Ky. and valuable blood of tlie Merino, a cross that would certainly be of benefit to every grade most valuable and desirable grade sheep, and one that comes probably nearer than any otherfilling all the requirements of the average farmer, is to breed the half-bred Merino ewe3 to a Cotswold ram, and then on the ewes from these crosses breed a Southdown ram. Inthe first cross with the Merino we get more fleece of finer quality, a long-lived, healthy ewes, bred to a Cotswold. will nearly double the weight of fleece, giving it more length,and at the same time increasing greatly the size of carcass. Breed these Cotswold-Merino ewesto a Cotswold ram again, and the produce will approach very near a full-blood Cotswold insize and appearance. The fleece will not be quite as long or heav
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