D/r/.S/OA" OF AMilAL nUSBANDRY 433 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, CAP ROUGE, QUE. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, GUS. A. LANGELIER. 



SHEEP. 



A small but select flock of Leicesters is kept, consisting of one ram, six breeding 

 ewes, and eight ewe lambs. Four ram lambs, sold during the autumn of 1913 to the 

 Provincial Government, made an average of over $40 each at the public sale held in 

 Quebec during October of that year. 



A good dog-proof fence was made around the sheep pasture and as this pasture 

 is on a high knoll and very dry it had to be supplemented with green peas and oats. 

 A creep was made to allow grain feefling to the lamb?, and the stock kept in tine shape 

 until the end of March, wlijen this report is written. 



The ram, instead of being turned in with the ewes to serve them, was kept in a 

 separiite paddock in which grain was fed to the ewes once a day, when the man who 

 fed could watch them and take note of the ear number of the ewe served. This method 

 not only has the advantage of saving the ram's energy, but also of giving positive and 

 correct information as to the date of lambing, when the ewes can be watched carefully. 



During the winter of 1013, the horses had to be kept in the future sheep barn, 

 pending the completion of a new stable. This prevented doing any feeding cxi^eri- 

 inent through lack of room. 



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