240 SH&EP FARMliSTG IN AMERICA. 



There are certain points to be observed in 

 pasturing down corn with lambs. It is not a 

 practice adapted to feeding very thin, light 

 lambs, since they require too long a feeding 

 season. It is not a good practice in a wet 

 region, or on a soil readily tramped into mud 

 and damaged thereby. Once the lambs are 

 accustomed to the com tbey should not be taken 

 away from it else they will on return overeat 

 and die in consequence. Salt should be before 

 them at all times. 



The writer is of the opinion that the one 

 valuable feature of this practice is the cheap- 

 ness of its execution. There is certainly some 

 waste, unless pigs follow the lambs, and in some 

 instances at least there is a high death rate 

 owing to the impossibility of limiting the 

 amount of com eaten. However, as a usual 

 thing the lambs learn slowly to eat the com, 

 finding it hard to shell, and do not founder. 



Mature sheep are sometimes turned into the 

 cornfields to glean their own harvest. There 

 is probably more danger of founder in old 

 sheep than ia lambs, since they the more read- 

 ily begin to eat the ears. It may be said here 

 that it is entirely unsafe to turn Native sheep 

 in the cornfields, since they are more sophisti- 

 cated than their Western kindred and take the 

 more readily to the com. 



In conclusion it may be said that the Western 

 feeders have very great advantages in their 

 cheap and abundant forage and grain and their 

 mild, sunny climate. They achieve success by 

 close attention to details; the lambs are fed 



