4S BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



of time, as will rape alone. I think the experiments which 

 have been tried in shipping sheep long distances are in favor 

 of the rape-fed sheep over grain-fed. I think the Ontario 

 experiment station sent lambs — I will not be sure whether it 

 was lambs or sheep — to London, and the rape-fed sheep stood 

 the shipping the best. 



The leg of mutton which I have here I happened to have on 

 hand, and I brought it along to illustrate this point. This was 

 a yearling wether. That is a sample of some mutton that was 

 made entirely on rape pasturage. While I do not exhibit that 

 quarter as a model leg of mutton, yet I do suggest that you will 

 not find many better. It was made entirely on rape, and with- 

 out any grain whatever. Of course, the strong point, and one 

 of the points in connection with the raising of rape which I 

 wish to emphasize before you, is that it is a great saving in your 

 grain feed from the time your pasturages begin to give out 

 until now. That is the first point, and another point is that it 

 is a capital feed on which to make first-class mutton. In my 

 opinion there is none better. 



Following rape, I should have plenty of turnips, because 

 there is a time in our climate when rape goes back on us and 

 it is about this time of year. Sometimes it holds on until the 

 middle of the winter. My sheep are on rape today, but you 

 should have turnips to follow the rape, if you can. Of course, 

 corn ensilage is an excellent feed for sheep, but there is nothing, 

 in my judgment, like the plain, old-fashioned, rutabaga turnip 

 with which to follow up your rape. White turnips constitute 

 one of the best feeds sheep can have. White turnips will feed 

 very well up to a month from now — up to about the middle of 

 January. You can raise white turnips if you want to plant 

 them in August, but after the middle of January white turnips 

 do not hold very good. I should feed always whole turnips to 

 sheep with full mouths. Of course, with lambs you must have 

 the turnips cut. I think an old ewe likes her turnips best 

 whole. There is no harm in cutting them at all, but I think an 

 old sheep likes them whole the best. 



Now, with the farm such as I have described, and equipped 

 as I detailed before you, our young man is in pretty good 

 shape to start off in the sheep business. I should not advise 

 that he turn ofT all his lambs the first year. He should carrv 

 them until the second year to begin with. After a while per- 



