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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 2, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SHEEP NOTES. 
Cotfed Wool. 
What is the cause of eotted wool? I had 
six fleeces out of 29 this Spring, k. s. 
l.owman, N. Y. 
“Cotted” wool is usually caused by the 
breaking down of the little cell or gland 
from which the wool grows, causing an 
unhealthy growth. This may be brought 
about by disease, or from the sheep be¬ 
ing at some time in a very low condition. 
If the “cotting” is not very bad, and the 
sheep are well kept it may not occur 
again next year. On the other hand, if 
the fleeces were very bad, the same sheep 
may be so affected next year. It would 
probably be wiser to fatten them and get 
clean sheep. Six out of 29 is a very 
large proportion. R. S. will probably re¬ 
call if there were not some unfavor¬ 
able conditions with his flock last season. 
If so, we should be glad to have his re¬ 
port through The R. N.-Y. 
Care of Winter Lambs. 
Will you tell me and others, who are doubt¬ 
less interested in the subject, something about 
the sort of pens or buildings required to 
raise Winter lambs? Also in regard to the 
kind of feed best for the ewes, both before 
and after lambing? f. R- w. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
It is not necessary to have expensive or 
basement barns. The sheep pens must 
be dry, light, free from drafts, and well 
ventilated. I prefer those wholly above 
ground to basements, although my own 
sheep barns are all of the latter kind. 
If the above requirements are furnished, 
it will not be a necessity that they be 
frost-proof. I think there is more dan¬ 
ger from poor ventilation in the effort 
to get barns warm than from a little cold. 
Sheep will stand and thrive in an immense 
gmount of dry cold, if they are protected 
from drafts. In my own sheep stables 
the water in the troughs will skim over 
with ice in an extremely cold night, yet I 
have had a half dozen lambs drop in an 
hour in February with the mercury away 
below zero outside and the wind blowing 
a gale; and not one but was on its feet 
and moving within 15 or 20 minutes; 
and they put on five pounds of flesh a 
week for the next two months. If they 
are born right as suggested on page 487, 
and the ewes are so fed as to have plenty 
of milk, and the lamb gets to nursing 
shortly after birth, they will live and 
thrive at a temperature of from 30 to 40 
degrees. It is wise to keep those sheep 
that have not yet had lambs separate from 
the ewes with lambs. One can then tell 
at once, on coming into the pen, if there 
are any new lambs, and so see that they 
nurse and do not get away from their 
mothers. The sheep often get confused if 
there are a number of lambs about, and 
so fail to own the right one, or does own 
a lamb not hers. It is well to have a 
number of little pens, so tight that a 
lamb cannot crawl through, where the 
ewe and her lamb can be kept close to¬ 
gether for a day or two, till the lamb gets 
accustomed to its mother and things in 
general. Then with a brush put a num¬ 
ber on ewe and lamb, so the mother of 
each lamb can be easily distinguished. 
If for any reason a lamb gets chilled, 
take a jug of hot water and curl the 
lamb around it near the mother, then be 
sure and get a little milk into the lamb s 
stomach. This will serve much better 
than to take the lamb in by the stove, 
where there is too great a contrast to the 
temperature of the pen. I he ewe having 
her lamb kept where she can see and 
smell it, will not be likely to disown it, 
as she will if it is taken away from her 
for a time. 
A mistake is often made by leaving 
the sheep to run in the pastures and fill 
themselves with the frozen grass, with 
the thought that it is. a saving of feed. 
Such grass will fill but does not feed 
them. There is little nutriment in it. 
While depending on it, they are really 
living on the stored-up flesh of the early 
part of the season. It will really take 
more food to make up such loss before 
the Winter is done. They should have 
what early-cut clover or mixed hay (not 
Timothy) they will eat up clean twice a 
day. It is always important that the hay 
should be evenly distributed in the racks, 
and no more given than will be eaten up 
at a feeding. If any is left it should 
be taken out. Horses or colts will eat 
such hay readily. In feeding grain, the 
troughs should be thoroughly cleaned be¬ 
fore each feeding. These may seem small 
things, but unless they are looked after 
the sheep will not thrive, no matter how 
much good feed they may have. Then 
they need roots, say for 25 sheep one-half 
bushel per day to start with. Turnips 
are excellent and can be grown at little 
more cost than the expense of harvesting. 
As to grain, that will depend when the 
lambs are expected. If in early January, 
they should have a little grain as soon as 
they come into tjjc yards. If the lambs 
are not to come before February or 
March, and the hay is early-cut clover, 
or, better still, Alfalfa, with the roots, 
they will not need grain until about the 
holidays. Then begin with a gill apiece, 
say of oats and wheat bran. Dried brew¬ 
ers’ grains are excellent; pitted ones bet¬ 
ter still. The latter are the best feed I 
ever gave breeding ewes. The grain ra¬ 
tion may be gradually increased to a pint 
per day for heavy mature sheep. It 
should be borne in mind that such feed¬ 
ing materially increases the weight of 
wool. After the lambs are dropped both 
roots and grain should be gradually in¬ 
creased, and one-third of the latter be 
corn. Gluten feed will produce milk in 
the ewe as well as in the cow. After the 
lambs go, at from eight to 10 weeks old, 
the grain can be taken away, if the sheep 
are to be kept over, so that the time of 
heavy feeding is not long. If the sheep 
are to be sold, a little extra and longer 
feeding will put the ewes into market 
fat. I have sent both ewes and lambs 
together. The ewes brought within half 
a cent a pound of highest quotations. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
COW GIVES BLOODY MILK. 
I have a cow that began giving bloody 
milk from one front teat about two weeks 
ago. Sometimes there are lumps of thick 
milk and some days it seems to be mostly 
blood. Two days ago the other front teat 
began to give bloody milk. I have been giving 
her saltpeter, but it does no good. She is a 
young cow running in pasture; eats well and 
nothing else seems to be the matter with her. 
What can 1 do for her? b. p. m. 
Central Square, N. Y. 
Probably your cow has been injured 
while in pasture, either by hooking, or a 
good hard bunt from a mulley cow will 
produce same result. Sometimes the sting 
of an insect seems to be the cause. Bathe 
the udder in hot water and milk out fre¬ 
quently, and for this purpose better keep 
her in the barn for a day or two. They 
will usually get over this trouble in a 
few ^ays. A tumor in the udder might 
cause this trouble and make it constant, 
but this quite unlikely in your case. 
Egg-Eating IIens.- —I take cornmeal and 
mix with vinegar and give them a mess 
or two and then I leave off a few days. I 
find it very useful, and when you see any of 
them eating eggs give them a mess; they will 
soon quit it. A. p. L. 
Andorra, N. Y. 
The cows went back to pasture in first- 
class condition; they all have been grain-fed 
during the Winter. The supply of milk is 
beyond the average. The outlook for pasture 
is beyond anything that we ever had. There 
are better prices this year, and according 
to quantity and quality it is far above any¬ 
thing that we ever had. m. c. u. 
Brisbin, N. Y. 
I have no silo, my only knowledge of them 
being gained by my study and observation of 
their use by others. This has led me to 
make plans for building one this season, for I 
believe that the silo is just as important to 
the breeder of beef cattle as it is to the 
dairyman. The acreage of corn here this sea¬ 
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will be more if anything. Planting is very 
backward, good seed is scarce, and some 
pieces will have to he planted over again on 
account of using poor seed, which emphasizes 
the fact that all seed should be tested before 
using. c. b. 
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