230 MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



Ozs. 



Southdown Lambs 10 10.38 



Southdown Wethers ' 8 5.32 



Hampshire Down Lambs 9 11.66 



Hampshire Down Wethers 4 7.39 



Suffolk Lambs 4 11.00 



Suffolk Wethers 3 6.72 



Shropshire Lambs 3 9.42 



Shropshire Wethers 4 6.65 



Oxford Down Lambs 5 10.81 



Oxford Down Wethers 4 8.35 



Byeland Wethers 2 5.09 



Dorset Lambs 3 9.97 



Dorset Wethers 2 6.36 



Cross-bred Lambs ., 8 12.21 



Cross-bred Wethers 5 7.82 



Scotch Cross-bred Lambs 4 12.77 



Scotch Cross-bred Wethers 4 7.30 



SCREENINGS. 



Large numbers of sheep and lambs are fed on screenings, 

 and that they are a profitable feed there is no doubt when they 

 are of good quality, but there is a great deal of difference in their 

 quality. Sometimes they contain such a large quantity of foul 

 seeds that they are really an injury to the sheep. 



SHIPPING CRATES. 



Nothing detracts from a pure sheep breeder's business abil- 

 ities more than shipping sheep in crude, home-made crates. A 

 good many breeders make a mistake in making their shipping 

 crates out of anything in the shape of lumber that comes along. 

 Not only do they make them entirely too heavy, but of lumber 

 that is entirely unfit for the purpose. It is generally best to have 

 them made at some factory in knock-down style, submitting a 

 design of how they should be made. Of course the crates should 

 be made in harmony with the size of the sheep to be shipped. A 

 crate about 4 feet long, 2 feet 8 or 10 inches high, and about 20 

 inches wide would be about the size for a ram weighing from 

 150 to 200 pounds. The shipper should make it a point not to 

 have the crates made too wide so that the sheep may attempt to 

 turn around in them, and possibly become wedged in such a man- 

 ner as to be unable to extricate themselves. The engraving used 

 herewith shows a model shipping crate for either sheep or goats. 

 The photograph from which this was made was supplied by Mr. 



