1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
799 
HOW TO FEED SHEEP. 
1. My farm is In southern Ohio. The last of 
March. 1901, I had seven acres of bottom 
land sown to Alfalfa, with beardless barley 
as a nurse crop. Both grew very well. The 
barley was cut with a self-binder the last of 
.Tune. The Alfalfa was about 18 inches high 
at this time. In order to save this Alfalfa 
the barley was cured and put in the barn 
in the sheaf. I plan to feed it to breeding 
ewes. 1 have 36 open wool ewes bred for 
Winter lambs, and 39 Merino ewes for Spring 
lambs. We have hay, mixed clover and Tim¬ 
othy, and corn fodder. I may be able to have 
some fodder shredded. Have corn, but must 
buy more. What will make a balanced ration 
for these ewesV I can get bran at 816 per 
ton, corn at about 50 cents for 68-pound 
bushel, and oats at, I think, about 34 cents. 
Will the barley straw have any feeding 
value? It is bright, and was not very ripe 
when cut; butts of sheaves full of flne green 
Alfalfa. 2. I am feeding a carioad of lambs. 
They are now on Blue-grass pasture, and will 
soon be on full feed, using corn and some 
whole wheat. 1 planned to put them in the 
feed iot about November 1. 1 have plenty of 
good corn fodder for roughage. Lambs will 
have a good open shed, part of the shed 
roofed with fodder, after .John Jamison’s 
plan. I’lenty of good water pumped into a 
tank ; somewhat warmed by a tank heater; 
have cured some ragweeds to let lambs 
run to this stack for a change in diet; pian 
to feed them corn for fattening. Wili prob¬ 
ably feed till in January. What will be a 
good ration for these lambs? Ration can 
inciude wheat if it seems best. I can seil 
wheat at 67 cents. it. t,. r. 
New Wiimington, Pa. 
1. I should feed these ewes all the 
mixed clover and Timothy they wish, 
and then give them a grain ration of 
two parts wheat, one part oats and one 
part bran. Then I should like to flavor 
this with a bit of oil meal, one of the 
most highly-prized concentrated foods 
used by sheepmen. I do not think bar¬ 
ley straw will be eaten by sheep very 
heartily. It has a feeding value only 
one point greater than rye straw, and 
considerably less than oat straw. Pos¬ 
sibly there may be enough Alfalfa in 
the straw to make it a desirable feed 
in your case. If you can get some tur¬ 
nips or any sort of roots for the ewes 
they will be most acceptable and de¬ 
sirable. If the ewes are in good condi¬ 
tion now, and are easy feeders, they 
should keep in nice shape on a pound 
of grain a day per head, if they find 
good clover picking in the hay. The 
shredded corn fodder will also be eaten 
with a relish, but it will not be eaten 
to so much advantage as the clover 
and Timothy. I regard clover in the 
East as the best of our dry forages 
for sheep. These ewes will do very well 
without any corn at all. 2. Let these 
lambs have what roughage they wish, 
and then feed a ration of two parts 
corn, one part oats and one part wheat, 
and a bit of oil meal. Towards the 
latter part of the fattening period I 
should increase the part of corn slightly 
and cut down on the wheat. With such 
a ration the lambs ought to fatten well. 
It is advisable to keep them in rather 
a restricted enclosure. Sheep can 
easily run off fat, and small feed lots 
and plenty of good feed are requisites 
where one wishes to feed on flesh rapid¬ 
ly. I should feed grain twice a day, and 
keep the feed racks filled with hay or 
fodder of the most appetizing sort. 
Sheep are so cheap now one must feed 
economically and make every bit count, 
and then turn off the feeders just as 
soon as they are ready. c. s. plumb. 
BEEF-MAKING IN MINNESOTA. 
What is known as Greenwood Prairie, 
a region in Wabash and Olmsted coun¬ 
ties, which was settled in the early fif¬ 
ties, was at one time noted for its great 
wheatfields. Before the advent of the 
self-binder, the men who used to “fol¬ 
low the harvest” from Kansas north¬ 
ward all knew that Greenwood Prairie 
was a place where they might expect to 
find a “long job” of binding. As the 
yield of wheat grew less year by year, 
the farmers of this region turned their 
attention to barley and then to flax, but 
the wisest of them saw that something 
besides grain raising would have to be 
taken up if the farms were made to 
pay a profit. Many went into dairying, 
and several creameries were started. 
A great many have taken up the rais¬ 
ing and fattening of beef cattle and 
hogs, and a majority of the farmers 
now have small flocks of sheep. One 
of the successful beef feeders of this 
neighborhood is Geo. E. Purvis, of Viola. 
He has been feeding several carloads of 
cattle every Winter for some time, and 
the following is his method: In the 
first place he says he prefers Polled 
Angus cattle to any others, and at pres¬ 
ent is paying as high as 60 cents per 
100 more for them than for Durhams. 
He says that while his ideal feeder is 
“an Angus with a good broad back, large 
bony legs, low blocky build and a good 
paunch for carrying food,” any Durham 
or Hereford with the same qualities will 
answer. 
He begins feeding shock corn to the 
cattle about October 1, while they are 
still on grass. The corn is fed to them 
in yards near the barn, so that the hogs 
may be turned in to clean up after the 
cattle. They are given one feed of this 
shock corn per day for five or six weeks, 
care being taken not to give them all 
they want. Then they are put into the 
Winter feeding yards, where they have 
access to straw-covered sheds. These 
sheds are a good protection from storms, 
but it is a curious fact that the cattle 
prefer to lie outside in clear weather, 
no matter how cold it is. From 
the time the steers are taken from 
the pastures till about January 1 
to 15 they are given one feed of 
shock corn per day and two feeds of 
meal. At the start they are given 
coars'i crushed corn and-cob meal. After 
three or four weeks, when they begin to 
show signs of not being very hungry 
for their meal, a change is made by 
grinding the corn and cob very fine, 
then, Mr. Purvis says, “They will come 
on the run after you when you go into 
the yard with the meal.” This fine meal 
is continued till the cattle are ready 
for the market, but is varied whenever 
they show signs of being Ured of it, 
by mixing in a two-bushel sack of bran 
in the meal for 40 cattle. The bran is 
thoroughly mixed with the meal, and 
the change seems to help their appe¬ 
tite, the same as the change from coarse 
to flne meal. 
These steers are generally marketed 
in May or June. Last April Mr. Pur¬ 
vis sold one carload of Angus cattle in 
Chicago for $5.60 per 100 and one car 
of Durhams sold the same day for $5.40. 
He fed the remainder of his cattle till 
the middle of May, and shipped in com¬ 
pany with a neighbor who had Dur¬ 
hams. The Angus cattle averaged 1,275 
pounds and brought $5.75, and the Dur¬ 
hams averaged 1,285 pounds and aver¬ 
aged $5.55. In feeding shock corn to 
cattle there would be a very considerable 
waste if it were not for having some¬ 
thing to follow them. Mr. Purvis now 
follows this plan: After allowing the 
40 beef cattle to have what they wyi 
eat with a relish, he turns in a flock of 
100 sheep, and leaves them two hours; 
then turns in the cows and young cattle 
for the same length of time, then gives 
the hogs what is left. At present he has 
30 October pigs, six old sows and 12 
60-pound shotes. Those who follow the 
plan of feeding shock corn to beef cattle 
and who do not have sheep, usually plan 
to have the same number of hogs as 
steers. _j. m. drew. 
MILK NOTES. 
The milk business at this point is rather 
mixed. About 40 cans are shipped daily, 
the rest being manufactured or consumed in 
the nearby towns. The milk from my owm 
dairy is peddled in Sidney. A new factory 
for the manufacture of French cheese was 
started in Sidney October 1. The owner is 
Mr. Du Para. He pays 5 cents per 100 
pounds in advance of condensery. Cows are 
generally in good condition and prices are 
well up in this section. The corn crop was 
good; oats were very light and of inferior 
quality. Potatoes rotted badly on some farms, 
but on an adjoining farm a good crop was 
harvested with very few poor ones. Apples 
no crop at all. Mill feeds are high. Corn- 
meal costs us $26 per ton, bran $20, and the 
others in proportion. b. m. p. 
E. Guilford. N. Y. 
Some of the farmers have creameries and 
some use separators. One man with a large 
dairy still uses small pans, and some con¬ 
tract their milk in the cities of Albany and 
New York. Others draw their milk to clieese 
factories and to the .station. Most of the 
cows are common stock, but there are a few 
fair-sized dairies of registered cattle. Corn- 
meal is high, from .$1.30 to .$1.3.5 per 100 
pounds; whole oats 45 cents per bushel. 
Hay is worth from $10 to $12 per ton. The 
price of milk at the station is from 60 to 
70 cents per can ; clieese from 9 to 10 cents 
per pound. j. ». m. 
Richmondville, N. Y. 
Prof. Babcock, on page 754, settles a por¬ 
tion of the adulterated milk and cream ques¬ 
tion in a satisfactory manner, but he seems 
to have lost sight of a part of the cause for 
complaint. He says that the use of lime 
water in milk is all right, because lime water 
makes it healthy and serves to keep it sweet. 
I think he is riglit. for lime water is very 
good: but. wlien we as consumers buy milk, 
wo do not want to have to pay six cents a 
quart for lime water, when we can make 
lime water for six cents a barrel, I was about 
to say. I think any foreign substance added 
to milk is an adulterant, even though it does 
improve the milk or add to its healtii-giving 
qualities, and ought to be forbidden. 
Troy, N. \'._o. w. w. 
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