CARE OP THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB. 9S 



market. Her unselfish nature turns the feed 

 quickly into milk and little of it goes to nour- 

 ish her own body. 



It is much easier, however, to keep her in 

 large milk flow if we provide succulent food at 

 this time. Corn silage is easily provided and 

 is as good for the ewe as for the cow. It 

 should be made from well matured corn so as 

 to develop its sugar and prevent an excess of 

 acid from forming. Some complaint has been 

 made of the effect of corn silage upon sheep, 

 but usually the trouble has been that the feed- 

 ers have tried to make it the main part of the 

 ration. It should always be fed in connection 

 with good sound dry hay and some grain. As 

 corn silage from well matured corn has in it 

 a good deal of grain when it is fed the rest of 

 the ration should be of wheat bran, oilmeal 

 and clover or alfalfa hay. 



In the northern part of the United States, 

 along the great lakes, in Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin and northern Minnesota beside northern 

 New York and New England and in all of 

 Canada (besides Oregon, Washington and 

 British Cblumbia) roots form a very impor- 

 tant part of the ewe's ration. Eoots have, in- 

 deed, almost created the breeds of English 

 mutton sheep. They are safer to feed than 

 silage and better. In England it is customary 

 to grow turnips, mostly swedes, which are sel- 

 dom pulled but are consumed on the ground 

 on which they grow, being enclosed by hurdles 

 and eaten off a block at a time. In very wet 

 or bad weather some are pulled and carried 



