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1816 Report of Farmers' Institutes 



The ■wool should be sheared from the abdomen, the entrails re- 

 moved, and back sets placed behind to hold the skin back and the 

 caul fat fastened with wooden toothpicks over the exposed j^art, 

 particularly the hind quarters and rilis. They never should be 

 shipped until they are thorouc;hly cooled throuuh. Then they are 

 wrapped in cheese cloth with coarse sacking outside. They can be 

 shipped by express cheaply and a long distance. 



MARKET LAMBS 



Many dollars are paid out for mutton lambs from outside the 

 community or state, which could profitably be produced at home, 

 thus solving the problem of eliminating the middleman's profit. 

 I was in a section last fall admirably adapted to sheep, which also 

 had been filled all summer with city people able and willing to pay 

 good prices for food, yet but a few dollars had gone into the hands 

 of local farmers for lambs. The proprietor of a fashionable resort 

 there told me he would prefer to buy from the locality, but most 

 of his supply had to come from ]S[ew York City, two hundred and 

 fifty miles distance, shipped there from the west or Canada. 

 What difference can a wool tariff make under conditions such as 

 these ? 



Late lambs weighing about sixty pounds, too light to bring best 

 prices in market, can be purchased in the fall from pastures. 

 Such can often ])e had for at least two cents per pound less 

 than thev will sell for when fat, weiiihina; from eii>litv to one hun- 

 dred pounds. On good feed they will begin to grow rapidly in Octo- 

 ber when they will eat a little corn on the pasture. One pound there 

 will accomplish as much as two combined with winter feed. They 

 will also have learned to eat it, so that there wull be no lost time 

 when they will have come into the barn. They will then, when 

 properly fed, grow rapidly, gaining in live weight as well as price. 

 This makes a splendid way to market clover and early cut hay as 

 well as oats, peas and corn grown on the farm. It will pay to use 

 some bran or Ocits and a little oil meal with the above; also plenty 

 of roots or silage. At prevailing prices cottonseed meal is excel- 

 lent. No stock need more careful looking after. Thev should be 

 graded as to size and vigor in small flocks, fed three times a day 



