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sheep fed -with perfect regularity as to time and amount 

 (making proper allowance for the weather,) will do better on 

 rather inferior keep, than on the best without that regularity. 

 I prefer feeeding three times a day even in the shortest 

 days of winter ; but many good flock - masters feed but twice. 

 If fed three times, it should be at sunrise, noon, and an hour 

 before dark ; if but twice, the last feeding should be an hour 

 earlier. Sheep do not stand at their racks and eat well in 

 the dark. It is not very important at what period of the day 

 grain or roots are given provided the time is uniform. 



Salt. — Salt is not perhaps quite as necessary to the health 

 of sheep in winter as in summer, but still aU good shepherds 

 regard it as indispensable. It should be fed as often as once 

 a week, in the feeding troughs, or by brining a quantity of 

 hay or straw. The Vermont breeders almost imiversaUy 

 keep it standing constantly before their sheep in boxes placed 

 in the sheep -houses. My friend Gen. Otto F. Marshall, of 

 Steuben County, New York, has an excellent and economical 

 mode of feeding it. The orts when taken from the sheep 

 racks are thrown into a box -rack wider and considerably 

 higher than the common ones, and placed under a shed. The 

 orts are sprinkled with brine, and the sheep when hungry 

 for salt go to the ort rack and consume them. Thus all 

 the hay is saved. 



