19 



ridged, this ridging facilitates weeding, makes easier pulling; sow 

 quite thick to insure good stand, as they are shy starters, when up 

 few inches thin with a broad hoe leaving little bunches between 

 strokes of hoe, thin these bunches by hand to one plant. After 

 this there is little work. Use the large stock varieties, not the table 

 carrot. Turnips can be sown from middle of June to middle of July 

 in rows two and half or three feet apart, either flat or ridged high; 

 sow them thin but even, they are quick, easy starters, when well 

 up, thin at once (don't let 'em get big) with hoe to one plant twelve 

 or fifteen inches apart. An occasional cultivation afterwards is all 

 that is needed. Use the Swede varieties. Mangles should be sown 

 early in the spring; sow same as turnips, only thicker as they are 

 slow to start and many seeds will not sprout if a bit dry, care for 

 them same as turnips, but thin further apart. The ewes and es- 

 pecially the lambs will be crazy for the carrots, and you are not apt 

 to have enough to feed too many. They will eat the turnips eager- 

 ly too, and many shepherds think you can't feed them too many; 

 we have had large experience in feeding turnips, having used them 

 in unlimited quantities for ewes, rams and lambs. We think preg- 

 nant ewes can be fed too many, and that it is better to limit them to 

 one moderate feed per day until after lambing, when they can safe- 

 ly have as many as they'll eat. Mangles contain the most water of 

 the three, and are rather chilly eating on a cold winter's day, they 

 are perhaps the best keepers though, and are very acceptable to 

 sheep in late spring, although we have the idea they do not like 

 them as well as turnips, and know that carrots are "pie" to them 

 compared with mangles. Care must be used in feeding mangles to 

 rams, as in quantity they have deleterious effect upon the bladder. 

 If you keep Dorsets, grow some kind of roots. Dorsets are the 

 alchemists among sheep, and will turn them into gold for you. 



CLOVERS AND LEGUMKS 



You are engaged, now, in making milk and baby flesh. Each 

 is largely composed of protein, to produce which you must feed pro- 

 tein. That means to buy large amounts of wheat bran, gluten feed 

 or oil meal, or it means to produce your own protein supply. You 

 can do this most easily by growing red clover, alfalfa, soy beans or 

 cow peas. 



