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best to have them finish their eating by night, so as not to be 

 disturbed after dark ; and that they rehsh their corn best at 

 night. 



N. D. and G, D. have one hundred and eighty fatting sheep. 

 Feed with corn and hay ; began with one pint and now aver- 

 age about one quart of corn per day. Their sheep are un- 

 commonly fine. The Hve weight of one, 180 lbs. 



I. N. has one hundred wethers ; fifty of them of a superior 

 character. To the one hundred, gives one bushel, heaped 

 measure, of oil meal per day with hay. His oil meal costs 

 him twenty dollars per ton, besides the expense of transporta- 

 tion twenty-five miles. 



D. N. has sixty sheep. To the sixty gives half a bushel of 

 oil meal and half a bushel of corn per day. 



G. S. has fifty-eight sheep. Corn and hay only are allowed. 

 Allows one and half bushel of corn per day to the fifty-eight 

 sheep. 



A. R. has three hundred sheep — in pens of twenty-five sheep 

 in each. His aim is to induce the sheep, besides hay, to take 

 one quart of corn each, given at three times a day. 



T. R. has one hundred and twelve sheep. Feeds with corn 

 and hay. Fifty of them have one bushel per day. The best 

 and most forward have one quart each. The live weight of 

 one, two hundred and ten lbs. 



G. D., an experienced feeder, is of opinion that no advantage 

 is gained by giving the sheep meal instead of unground corn. 



E. T., long familiar with the fatting of sheep, prefers weth- 

 ers to ewes ; prefers merinos to other sheep ; buys them at dif- 

 ferent ages, so that they come to the stall in succession ; thinks 

 five years old the best age for fattening ; and chooses to feed 

 them moderately until a short time before he intends to market 

 them, as, in his experience, they will not pay the cost of high 

 feeding during a long time. He often begins in March to feed 

 sheep, which he designs to send to market after shearing. He 

 is accustomed to keep his store-wethers in the yard with his 

 cattle upon the orts and husks that are thrown out to them. — 



