216 Stock at Cliftov^ovr-Bowmont. 



■winter the ewes received no artificial feeding, but in the event of 

 a snowstorm or hard frost a daily allowance of hay was supplied. 

 From time to time during the winter any lean ewes were drawn 

 out and received a little extra treatment. Previous to lambing 

 the ewes got turnips for about four weeks, being either folded on 

 them for a few hours daily, and run off to grass afterwards, or 

 the turnips were cut and laid down on the grass land. The ewe- 

 hoggs were grass-wintered on the hill, supplemented with a daily 

 allowance of J to J lb. of mixed cotton cake and dried grains, and 

 for a month in the spring they received, in addition, a cart load of 

 cut turnips per day, per hundred. The ewes bringing half-bred 

 lambs received no artificial food after lambing time. 



In the month of August the lambs were weaned, the half-bred 

 wedder and cheviot wedder lambs being marketed, and as many 

 of the half-bred ewe lambs as were fit for breeding, were retained 

 to keep up the half-bred stock on the lower part of the farm. In 

 the same way as many as possible of the Cheviot ewe lambs from 

 the gimmer age were kept for stock purposes. The draft age 

 (5 years) were sold in September. 



Management oe the Half-beed Stock. 



This stock, as previously mentioned, was confined to the lower 

 part of the farm, and was in four ages, viz. : ewe-hogge, 

 gimmers, 1 and 2 crop ewes ; the gimmers and the 1 and 

 2 crop ewes beiag all put to the half-bred tup. The fields 

 and lower portion of the hill ground, supplemented with a daily 

 allowance of ^ lb. cotton cake, generally kept the ewes until 

 about the month of January, when they received a further 

 allowance of a cart load of turnips per day per hundred. About 

 the end of February the cake was discontinued and the turnips 

 gradually increased from this to lambing time (April 1st). The 

 ewes were folded on turnips during the day and run off to grass 

 land at night. Turnips were laid down to the ewes during 

 lambing time and until the lambs were a fortnight old, when they 

 received no artificial feeding of any kind. 



The half-bred ewe hoggs were wintered on tamips, at the rate 

 of a cart load per day per hundred, with a daily allowance of 

 i lb. mixed cotton cake and dried grains, and as much cut hay 



