. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. nd he wants them to yield him as much wool each year as 300 THE AilERICAN 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
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. nd he wants them to yield him as much wool each year as 300 THE AilERICAN 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 mitil 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.
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