CHAPTER III 



FIELD FEEDING 



Cleaning and Fertilizing the Farm 



DURING the last few years there has sprung up a practice of using 

 the thin fleshed western or range sheep and lambs on the central 

 states grain farms to clean up weed patches, stubble fields and the like. 

 Farmers have learned they can fertilize their land and produce bigger 

 crops in this way, but they have not all learned that this class of feed 



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This Fanner Added the Required Amount of Grain to His Roughage to Produce These Fat Sheep 



will not, in itself, produce fat sheep and lambs, which is necessary to 

 make this class of feeding a success. It will be my intention to point 

 out in this chapter some of the methods to be followed to insure success. 

 I would also like to say that the farmer who has not the time nor the 

 inclination to study the most approved methods for feeding and fatten- 



