788 DR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



sheep and lambs. Then the breeders and store sheep are turned together fq 

 the winter. I feed stocks twice a day. At noon they are fed light, with wheat, 

 oats or pea straw. At night they are all fed about 1 gill of corn each. All 

 have shelter, and are compelled to use it during storms. Your essayist last 

 year made one remark that was worth its weight in gold as to tlie care of sheep, 

 that was, 'to be quiet among them.' I treat my sheep so they think I am in 

 their way, instead of their being in mine when I am among them. I feed a 

 very little sulphur mixed with salt during the winter. I think it a preventive 

 for pulling their wool. The first of March I take the breeders and keep by 

 themselves till nearly shearing time. In connection with their grain, I prefer 

 to feed a few roots or a little bran, but do not always find it convenient. 



XVI. Time for Lambs to Appear.- 'The lambs begin to make 

 their appearance about the 20th of April. Great pains are taken at this time 

 with this part of the fiock. Let the weather be what it may, the ewes and the 

 lambs are all driven to their shelter every night, and the little ones are carefully 

 cared for. This precaution is used until the weather gets warm and settled. 



XVII. Time for Trimming, Care of Fleeces, etc.— "My whole 

 flock is carefully trimmed and examined about the first of April. The wool is 

 washed and put in the fleeces at shearing time, so there is no waste. The theory 

 that sheep will not do well for a long term of years on the same farm I take no 

 stock in. For 28 years my stock has been kept on the same farm and the one 

 adjoining. You see that I have reported a continued progress. This, I can 

 assure you, has not been accomplished in a haphazard way. Nothing has been 

 left undone for their thrift and comfort that is reasonably in my power to do." 



Remarks. — Tliere is one point, however, that I desire to call especial atten- 

 tion to, shown by Mr. Green's carelessness, as he admits, after having given a 

 whole essay in the one word "care," which would do everything he claimed in 

 sheep culture — i. e., never allow a blooded breeding ewe to run with a lower 

 grade buck, as his experience shows that it destroys, for some unaccountable 

 reason, her power to afterwards produce full-blooded lambs, although mated 

 with a full-blooded ram. By his carelessness he lost, as a breeder, the value of 

 his $25 ewe, therefore have a care to his dearly bought experience in this par- 

 ticular. This gentleman's experience was with the Merinos; but as there are 

 those who consider the Cotswold as superior in several respects, I will give a 

 short item upon them from the Country Gentleman, a part of which was from 

 a catalogue of Mr. Harris, of Rochester, N. Y., whose opinion is considered 

 reliable. The editor gives it under the head of 



Cotswolds and Cotswold Crosses, the Coming Sheep of Amer- 

 ica, Furnishing the Largest Fleeces and the Largest Carcass.— 

 Mr. Joseph Harris, of Rochester, has lately published a catalogue in which he 

 gives his views of Cotswold sheep in the following terms: "The sheep are 

 thorouglily acclimated. They have not been forced ; they are kept for use — for 

 real value and not for show. They are housed in winter; they have sheds to 

 run under, but spend most of the time in the open air. If well fed, and pro- 

 vided with dry quarters under foot, there are no sheep that will stand exposure 



