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occurring in a silo, even only moderately well managed, 

 is not injurious to them. The common ration of ten pounds 

 a day for a full grown sheep would be equal to seventy 

 pounds a day for a thousand pound steer or cow, so that 

 about six pounds a day for an average sheep will be gen- 

 eraly sufficient along with such dry food as hay or oat straw, 

 or any of the dry fodders. Too much silage is apt, as roots 

 will, tokeepthe sheep dirty on account of the looseness always 

 due to succulent food. Silage thus made, will havegrainenough 

 to make a full ration, without other grain food, except a 

 handful of bran to counteract any possible looseness of the 

 bowels. 



FEEDING LAMBS. 



The following letter from the facile pen of Jos. E. Wing 

 of Ohio, tells a pleasant and "ow*er true story" on this sub- 

 ject of feeding lambs. It appeared in the columns of the 

 American Sheep Breeder, quite recently, and doubtless 

 it will b^ read with interest and profit to all concerned: 



"Apples of gold in pitchers of silver!" That is the pleas- 

 ing characterization of "words fitly spoken" made by one 

 Mr. Solomon some years ago. When is a word more fitly 

 spoken than when one man tells another that his honest 

 efforts are appreciated and his good intuitions recognized? 

 Thanks, kind friends, for your generous esteem, and thanks, 

 genial editors, for your rather unprofessional way of letting 

 one reader say kind things of another. 



Let me see, "where was I at?" Well, when last I wrote 

 we could not turn in any direction on Woodland Farm 

 without seeing sheep and lambs, Mojntanas in the big barn, 

 ewes at the little barn and white-fleeced lambs playing in 

 the alley ways and munching their corn meal and bran in 

 their feeder. 



Now they have all gone to Buffalo, the drafts have all 

 come back and gone to bank, and it is time to take account 

 of profits. For there are profits, this year, as nearly every 

 year, while we have not grown suddenly rich the balance 

 is on the right side of the ledger. We like to tell of the best 

 things. Our best was a small matter, little considered, 

 and given little time or attention and from which little was 

 expected. Its outcome was a surprise to us, 



