430 now TO MAKE THE FAllM TAY. 



ones about four. I employed Irishmen who were in the habit 

 of using the spade, and covered the back side with dirt, and 

 then with sod, which made them very warm; being open in 

 front, this was very important. The sheds were thirteen feet 

 \v <•]■'. and I cut them up twenty-two feet apart, with board 

 s which ran out in fropt of the sheds about fifty feet, 

 making yards and shelter for fifty sheep." 



Here are sheds with only the cost of putting them together, 

 and three months of feeding free. The writer goes on to state 

 that he bought the best hay he could get, bought corn in the 

 tiold, cut it and shocked it while the fodder was green, and 

 hauled it after the ground froze. He also got some oats and 

 some .shorts. He fed the sheep what hay and corn fodder they 

 would eat, and fed a bushel of grain (one quarter oats, one 

 quarter corn, and one half shorts) to each fifty sheep daily. Thoro 

 are a vast number of acres in the West and Southwest where 

 such a system on a large or small scale can be carried on. And 

 on many improved farms in the interior of any of the Western 

 •States, where it takes one bushel of grain to haul another to 

 market, it will prove much more profitable to feed the grain 

 to sheep and raise wool, which costs only four to six per cent, to 

 take to market. 



Summer Feeding on the prairies south of forty degrees 

 commences in April. The sheep are not coupled until December, 

 and lambs do not begin coming until May, when pasture is good 

 and the cold storms over. Lambing "on the range" is a 

 laborious operation, for all the lambs dropped during the day 

 •ire to be got into the fold before night without separating them 

 from their dams. Mr. Randall recommends strong pens to hold 

 a half dozen sheep each, strong enough to keep out the 

 wolves, so constructed that they can be hauled to any part of 

 ihe range. Any lambs dropped late in the day might be put 



