Raising Sheep on Temporary Pastures, 
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Order of grazing flock of ewes and lambs foUoired hy lam'bs alone in experi- 
mental worl\ 
Date. 
Crop. 
Field No. 
Acres in 
field. 
Number 
of lambs. 
Number 
of ewes. 
1919. 
Apr. 8 to 19 
Apr. 20 to 26 
Apr. 27 to May 8.. 
May 9 to 27 
May 28 to June 10. 
June llto 17 
June 18 to July 1. . 
July 2 to 12 
July 13 to 25 
July 26 to Sept. 11. 
Sept. 12 to Oct. 10. 
Oct. 11 to 25 
Oct. 26 to Nov, 5.. 
Nov. 5 to 25 
Fall wheat 
Rye 
Wheat 
Alfalfa 
Oats and peas. 
do 
do 
Rape 
Soy beans 
do 
do 
Corn and velvet beans. 
Fall barley 
Fall wheat 
3 
6 
4 
8 
5 
(1) 
(^) 
1 
2 
3 
6 
9 
5 
2 and 10 
3 
3 
5.3 
2 
5.8 
3.7 
0) 
1 Part of 10. 
2 Other part of 10. 
3 Not grazed. 
From April 17 to June IS, 14 dry and yearling ewes followed the ewes-and-lambs flock. 
After July 2, the 70 ewes followed the lambs and also grazed Field 10, 3.7 acres soy beans, and Field 4, 
5.3 acres com and soy beans. 
SIZE OF LOTS AND METHODS OF FENCING AND GRAZING. 
The convenient size for temporary pasture lots is determinQd 
mainly by the size of the flock. For health and for economical use 
of the pasturage it is undesirable to keep sheep on the same ground 
more than from 10 to 14 days. The most generally useful size of lot 
is 1 acre to 25 sheep. This area on an average furnished 14 days' 
feed. 
Arranging the size of lots on the basis of 1 acre to 25 sheep is more 
satisfactory than seeding larger areas and using hurdles to permit 
advance to fresh feed each day. Less labor is necessary and by going 
to entirely new ground after 10 or 12 days the danger of picking up 
parasite larvae on ground grazed over earlier is prevented. With a 
1-acre lot for 25 ewes or correspondingly larger ones for larger flocks 
it is an added advantage if their length is two or three times the 
breadth. With a heavy crop of forage that would last longer than 
was considered safe to hold the flock on the same ground, a short 
piece of cross fence can readily be put down to divide the pasture into 
two parts. The smaller lots are also convenient with purebred flocks 
to provide for the separate pasturing of smaller lots of ram and ewe 
lambs. 
Movable fencing is not* likely to be satisfactory for the outside-lot 
fences unless the whole area to be used lies in a long strip with side 
fences, when only two end pieces need to be in place at one time for 
the ground being grazed. 
A handy style of movable fence consists of a roll of 82-inch woven 
wire supported by posts made of half -inch iron rods. This post is 
