CHEEP, BF.EEDIN'G AND MANAGEMENT. 
Q15 
Coupling. 
We do not advise the use of teasers— that is, common rams aproned to 
show the rutting ewes. The better way is to drive the flock up to too 
yard twice a day and let the ram out with the flock. Immediately he has 
served a ewe catch and separate her from the flock. Keep all served ewes 
.together, and under no consideration allow but one service. If they 
.■come again in heat it will be from the fourteenth to the seventeenth day. 
Thus they may lie again returned to the ram after the thirteenth day, 
and if not in heat it may be cot down that they have been properly 
served. 
sleeping tho r.BOCrd, 
In breeding grades it is only necessary to keep a correct record of tho 
time of coupling, to correspond to the mark on the ewe. Where pure 
6heep are bred it will also be necessary to keep a record of the ram used. 
In the first case it is necessary to know when each ewe will drop her 
lamb. In the case of pure bred sliecp it is imperative that a full and 
accurate record be kept, else confusion will ensue and the breeder will 
have lost all that was gained before him, and r.'o breeder of pure sheep 
will buy from his flock. In order to bring the ewes into season at a 
specific time in seasons of drouth, or scant pas ture, the ewes should havo 
extra feed for three weeks before thev are requ.red to take the ram. 
the Management of Hams'. 
The rams should never be allowed to run with the ewes at any season 
'of the year. I 'hey are brutal always in their teasing, and if allowed so 
to run they not only exhaust themselves, but the ones drop their lambs 
out of season. His separate enclosure should be dry and comfortable, 
and kept strictly clean, and be entirely away from the sight and hearing 
of the ewes, except when admitted to them. His feed must be the best 
of hay, or fresh grass, with what oats he will eat clean daily, beginning 
•six weeks before the season with half a pound daily, and increasing tho 
feed gradually to two pounds daily, if he will eat so much. Some flock 
masters sow oats and peas together, tvvo bushels of the former to three 
pecks of the latter. This when threshed and ground together and fed, 
gradually increasing to a quart a day, makes most excellent feed for a 
hard-worked ram. On such feed, with pure water within reach at all 
times, a ram may be expected to properly serve one hundred to ono 
