WESTERN LAMB FEEDING. 241 



with veiy great regularity as to time and 

 amount. One mau will feed 2,500 or more, so 

 the labor cost is light. 



(Their disadvantage is in their remoteness 

 from market, entailing higher freights, and in 

 the speculative character of the Western men 

 which leads many of them to jump from one 

 industry to another, feeding few lambs one 

 year and very many the next, jumping often 

 just at the right time to fail to alight on their 

 feet. It is a curious fact that in Nebraska and 

 Kansas few farmers feed their own grain and 

 hay, preferring to sell it to great operators who 

 feed in central plants many thousands of sheep 

 and lambs. Thus is the manure lost to the 

 farms that will some day need it, and moun- 

 tains of richness are heaped up outside of feed- 

 ing corrals to prove an embarrassment to the 

 owner. This system is wrong and invites dis- 

 aster. The man who produces the feed should 

 feed it at home. A man can afford to devote 

 his time to 500 sheep or lambs in winter; thus 

 he has left on the farm most of the fertility 

 taken from it in crops and can readily return 

 it to his fields. Feeding his own crop he runs 

 small risk of loss in his operations. 



FEEDING MILL SCBEENINGS. 



Minnesota is the great state for feeding 

 screenings. These screenings come from the 

 great mills along the Mississippi and elsewhere. 

 They contain a little shrunken wheat, a good 

 deal of weed seed, largely of pigeon grass, and 

 bits of straw and trash. There are many thou- 



