128 



SHEEP FEEDING 



Grain, 65 



Handling the flocks, 112 

 Hay, wlien to feed, 94 

 Hurdles, in pasturing, 88 



Lambs, Western, 13 ; excelling as 

 feeders, 19 ; fat, proper weight 

 for, 103 ; for early market, 109 ; 

 selling the, 118 

 Lambing season of Western sheep, 8 

 Legumes for sheep pasture, 86 

 Leguminous hay and corn, 54 



Market, buying feeders on the, 30 ; 



points to watch on the, 107 ; 



raising lambs for early, 109 

 Marketing the fat sheep, 99-108 

 Merino blood in Western sheep, 8 



Native sheep, classification of, 2-6 



Salt for sheep, 46 



Screenings, 66, 67 



Selection of feeding sheep, 18, 33-36 



Selling the lambs, 118 



Shearing, effect of, 74 



Shipping sheep, suggestions for, 



104 

 Shrinkage during transportation, 



104 

 South, early-lamb business in the, 



109 ; grade ewes in the, 112 

 Southdown rams, 112 

 Soy beans, 88 

 Summary, of System I for feeding 



sheep, 44 ; of System III for 



feeding sheep, 56 ; of early-lamb 



business, 120 

 Systems for feeding sheep, 39-76 



Transportation, shrinkage during, 

 104 



Pasturing of crops, sometimes an 

 injury, 84 ; a fundamental prac- 

 tice, 97, 98 



Pasturing possibilities, early, 111 



Periodicals on sheep, 126 



Purchase of feeding sheep, 36-38 



Quality, consideration of, in buy- 

 ing feeding sheep, 34 



Rams, native, 6 ; Western, 17 ; 



Southdown, 112 

 Range, buying feeders on the, 27 

 Rape, grown in corn, 39, 42, 52, 



81-84 ; grown alone, 84 

 Ration for sheep, 39 

 Regions for Western sheep, 9-13 

 Roughness, important for cornfield 



feeding, 52 ; proportion of grain 



to, 70 ; how secured, 89 



Undergrowth in the cornfield, re- 

 sults from using, 43-44 ; methods 

 of planting, 77-83 



Weight, an important factor in 

 buying feeding sheep, 33 ; for 

 fat lambs, 103 ; of yearlings, 103 



Western ewes, 16 



Western lambs, 13 



Western rams and cull sheep, 17 



Western sheep, 8 ; in cornfields, 90 



Western wethers, 16 



Western yearlings, 14 



Wethers, native, 6 ; Western, 16 ; 

 weight of, 103 ; feeding charac- 

 teristics of, 20 



Yearlings, native, 5 ; Western, 14 ; 

 feeding characteristics of, 20 ; 

 weight of, 103 



