Sheep in New Yokk Staite 



1815 



cents per pound one can afford to feed it to lambs bringing twenty- 

 five cents per pound. A good ration is made np of a lialf bushel 

 of corn meal or cracked corn, twelve quarts of oats or bran or a 

 combination of both, and four qiuirts of linseed meal, giving only 



Fig. 183. Sheep Dressing Table, Knife and 



Backsets 



as much as they will eat up clean three times a day. It is not diffi- 

 cult to make them gain five pounds per week which will put them 

 in market at from eight to twelve weeks old. A better proposition, 

 even at six dollars, than to keep them six or eight months at the 

 same price or less. When the lambs are taken away, the ewes are 

 dried up and one has his lamb crop in market by pasture time. 

 To bring the highest price such lambs must be fat. It is useless to 

 ship any other kind. They can be hog dressed with the feet taken 

 off at the knee and gamble joint. Many prefer the head left on. 



