ALFALFA FOR SHEEP. 395 
alfalfa pasture as I would pigs, with ear corn 
thrown on a clean place on the ground. The results 
were astonishing. Lambs born in March weighed in 
late June 80 pounds and were sent fat to market, at 
long prices. 
In Kentucky some of the best early lamb growers 
practice turning the ewes and lambs on alfalfa that 
has run into blue grass considerably. The result 
is glorious lambs that bring the top prices and ripen 
weeks earlier than lambs running on common pas- 
turage. 
Ewes Get Too Fat—The practical objection to 
alfalfa pasturage is that it makes ewes too fat to 
breed well. To remedy this one ought, if he sees 
such condition approaching, take them away and 
turn them to rather poor grass for a time. I feel 
certain that I have lost the use of a good many ewes 
from barrenness through this effect, as they became 
fat, ready for the butcher and not ready for the ram. 
One remedy would naturally be to send them as they 
became fat to market, but this is not practicable in a 
pure-bred flock. 
