THE FATTENING OF SHEEP IN WINTER. 



The subject before us is "The Managing and 

 Feeding of Fat Sheep in Winter," together with 

 the difference in the various breeds. My first 

 rule is, always to buy good stock, whatever the 

 breed may be, and to be sure to select animals 

 kindly disposed to fatten. The price of well 

 bred sheep may appear to be high, but depend 

 upon it, if there is no money in feeding good 

 stock, there is no money in poor. It will not 

 do (as has often been said), to buy any kind of 

 sheep for feeding, that you can double your 

 money upon; for a one-dollar sheep will con- 

 sume about as much feed as a six-dollar one, and 

 as neither of them can be fed through the feed- 

 ing season for much short of five dollars a head, 

 you will readily perceive that the one-dollar 

 sheep would stand you in six dollars, the other 

 eleven dollars. 



According to my experience, the one-dollar 

 sheep would weigh in the spring about eighty 



