. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ®he gxceitev cmb jgtportsmcm [November 23, 1901 Cost of and Profit on Fifty Ewes. Let the mind of the reader follow fifty ewes in the hand9 of the farmer who has not yet adopted the silo, but depends on dry fodder and grain and some grazing. Each sheep of 100 pounds or less weight should have an average of one-half pint of corn or its equal in other cereal food per day and an average of about one and a half pounds of good, dry hay or fodder per day from December 1st until plenty of green herbage cornea in the spring. I know it is not possible to name an exact a
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ®he gxceitev cmb jgtportsmcm [November 23, 1901 Cost of and Profit on Fifty Ewes. Let the mind of the reader follow fifty ewes in the hand9 of the farmer who has not yet adopted the silo, but depends on dry fodder and grain and some grazing. Each sheep of 100 pounds or less weight should have an average of one-half pint of corn or its equal in other cereal food per day and an average of about one and a half pounds of good, dry hay or fodder per day from December 1st until plenty of green herbage cornea in the spring. I know it is not possible to name an exact amount of food for each ewe because some winters require more than others and some sheep more than others; but there is no man capable of feeding sheep at all who does not know when they have consumed the food he last gave them and seem to be ready f >r another feed from his hands. To feed them thoughtfully and carefully all they will eat up twice a day cleanly is as good a rule for general practice as one can have. The above mentioned ration for fifty ewes will amount to about four and a half tons of hay and fifty bushels of corn for the winter, and no keeper of sheep should go into winter quarters with a less amount of provender set apart for them, even though they be of the cheaper grade of sheep. Six dollars a ton for hay and 50 cents a bushel for the corn, both fed out to the sheep, would be a liberal cost price for them. Eight cents a head per month is a liberal cost price for pasture, salt- attention and care. So we have an account with the sheep as follows viz.: Dr. V.~ tons hay at 16. costing S27 50 bushels corn at 50c, costing 25 Pasture, etc., 50 head at 8c. seven months, costing 28 Total 880 Cr. 50 fleeces. 8 lbs., 400 at 20c 880 lam aware that common ewes will not yield eight pounds of wool each, but I know that the second cross of ewes made as I have suggested and fed and cared for, will shear over eight pounds per head, average. If they do not. there is some-
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