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the lambs to eat the corn. Late in the season all stalks with ears 

 beyond the reach of the lambs were broken down. After the lambs 

 were removed from the fields pigs were allowed to gather up what 

 corn had been left. Baker Brothers were fairly successful with this 

 method of feeding, but they made it their chief business and gave 

 close attention to their lambs. They drove them out of the fields 

 each evening and kept them in lots or in pastures at night where 

 they had access to salt and water. As the lambs became fat they 

 were sorted out and shipped. The unfinished ones that were left 

 after all of the corn in the fields was consumed were placed in dry 

 lots and fed until they were fat (Fig. 820). 



Another Illinois feeder, G. Firoved, has successfully harvested 

 corn with sheep. He begins pasturing the com fields, which are 



Fia. 220. — All that was left of an ear of corn and a corn stalk after the sheep were through 



with them. 



seeded to rape, about the middle of September, but at first he 

 gives the animals access to approximately half the area that will be 

 required to fatten them. He turns them in on the second half 

 before the supply of feed in the first half becomes so low that the 

 sheep or lambs have to hunt for feed. He keeps close watch over 

 the supply of roughage and endeavors to have pastures that can be 

 used at the time the corn is being consumed. When the supply of 

 roughage seems to be running low, the animals are given all the 

 hay they want. In fact, the successful harvesting of corn depends 

 on having plenty of roughage in the form of grass, forage and hay. 

 The Fauts Brothers, successful feeders in Indiana, follow the 

 practice of seeding soybeans in the com and harvesting both the 

 corn and the beans with lambs. They have been so successful with 



