310 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA 



the lighter losses to the fact of the sheep being 

 more comfortable, thus eating with more regularity, 

 and not injuring their digestions by sudden over- 

 loading with grain. He now believes that the self- 

 feeders should be under cover and only the shock 

 corn fed in yards. 



This man makes a practice of saving the late sum- 

 mer growth of bluegrass on large pastures, on 

 which the sheep are turned in October or Novem- 

 ber. On these pastures they remain until Christmas 

 or sometimes till February if the season is suitable, 

 having also racks filled with clover or alfalfa hay. 

 They then go to the yards for the final feeding, go- 

 ing to market, shorn, in May. 



He believes that the secret of success in feeding 

 wethers is to buy the best, using those with a Cots- 

 wold or Lincoln cross if obtainable, and to keep 

 them stuffed at all times full of grass or clover or 

 alfalfa hay. He finds that by this method they con- 

 sume less corn and do not suffer from indigestion 

 from the result of too much grain. 



He does not turn the sheep to pasture until such 

 time as danger from infection by intestinal para- 

 sites is past. 



