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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 37, 
Live StockandDairy 
SHEARING SHEEP BY MACHINE. 
Has shearing sheep by machine any ad¬ 
vantage over hand work? B. c. G. 
Northeast Harbor, Me. 
I have used a sheep-shearing machine 
for the past five or six years. They have 
been very much improved in that time. 
The first knife, or clippers, that I had, 
very soon go 4 : clogged, and did not do 
good work on sheep that had fine or oily 
wool, or had any wrinkles. The one I 
now have, used on the same machine, will 
clip any kind of a sheep or wool. Now 
as to the direct question above; has the 
machine any advantage over hand work? 
So long as we had the old-fashioned 
shearers, who could turn off 30 to 40 
sheep a day, well sheared, I had no need 
of a machine. As the old men died off, 
or were unable to shear any longer, and 
because of the scarcity of sheep, few 
young men took up shearing, it became 
a problem to know how to get the sheep 
well and economically sheared. The men 
who were unused to it not only cut the 
sheep and tangled up the wool, but they 
would sheer only a few sheep per day, 
which made it expensive. For this rea¬ 
son I put in a machine. Any man who 
is at all handy soon learns how to hold 
a sheep, which is the important thing. 
A careless man can cut a sheep badly 
with the edge of the clippers, but soon 
sees the danger, and avoids it. With the 
shears the sheep, in the hands of such a 
man, is covered with little cuts. I 
find that after a little practice a man will 
shear a sheep every 15 or 20 minutes; 
and their bodies will be as smooth as a 
well-clipped horse. Of course it takes 
another man to turn the crank, so it is 
not so much of a time saver in the hands 
of a novice; but a skilled man, or an 
old shearer who knows how to handle a 
sheep, will average better than a sheep 
every 10 minutes. The man who turns 
can be a cheap hand, who could in no 
case use the shears. I propose next year 
to rig a shaft, and use my 1 Vi horse power 
gasoline spray engine to drive the ma¬ 
chine. It is not necessary, as some have 
supposed, to use a shears to finish or 
trim the legs. The same power, with a 
different knife, can be used to clip horses, 
or the shearing clippers can be used on a 
horse-clipping machine. Like all machin¬ 
ery they must be looked after, and kept 
in order. e. van alstyne. 
WINTER LAMB FEEDING. 
'(cornstalks) as possible. This mecesi- 
tates longer feeding to ripen the lambs, 
but it is cheaper than using so much corn. 
I have plenty of Alfalfa hay and fodder, 
and besides these I have a large quantity 
of clover and rye hay. This was cut from 
a field that was in rye last year; the rye 
is about one-fourth of a crop, and was 
about two-thirds ripe when cut. I am 
starting the westerns with this, as they 
go gradually on to a corn ration. They 
eat every head of the rye, much of the 
straw, and practically all the clover. I 
put this in their racks twice a day. In 
the evening for four days, I have been 
scattering one-half bushel of shelled corn 
over it. They have not yet learned to 
hunt out and eat all the corn. As soon 
as they have learned to eat it, expect and 
hunt for it, I shall commence feeding ear 
corn to them. This will be fed twice a 
day, in the same racks in which the corn 
is fed. While the clover and rye hay 
lasts, all the refuse straw will be thrown 
out befoi'e the corn is put in. As soon 
after the <;orn is put in as possible the 
clover hay or Alfalfa will be put in. This 
prevents, to some extent, the ears of corn 
being rolled or pushed into piles in the 
rack, and causes a slower eating of the 
corn. The clover and rye hay seems to 
be very much relished. 
The natives have been fed corn and 
Alfalfa for 60 days, and for a few days 
have had clover and rye hay outside in 
racks. Yesterday I put some of it in the 
mow, and will feed it in connection with 
the Alfalfa. They seem to relish it as 
much as the westerns do. One hundred 
and five natives are now being fed about 
two and two-thirds bushels of ear corn 
per day. Through all kinds of weather 
they will eat a little bit more, but I pre¬ 
fer to feed a little short, and obviate the 
danger of their breaking down from too 
strong a corn ration. The fodder is fed 
out of doors in racks on pleasant days. 
It is useless to- scatter it on the ground, 
but when put in racks they soon learn to 
eat large quantities of it. 
Water from a tubular well, nearly 80 
feet deep, is supplied to them by wind- 
power storage tank and hydrants. They 
drink from one-half barrel tubs. Water 
and salt is always before them. I do not 
understand why Mr. Van Alstyne recom¬ 
mends an equal amount of sulphur with 
the salt. I would be afraid of evil re¬ 
sults, and besides, I do not see the neces¬ 
sity of it. I used roots one or two Win¬ 
ters, but the cost of production and labor 
in handling them, caused me to drop the 
crop. If Mr. Van Alstyne can get a gain 
of 5 pounds per week, it is far above the 
average of what feeders make here The 
westerns I have in my lot are certainly 
a fine lot on which to get good gains. 
If I can get a gain of 2pounds per 
week for 100 to 120 days I shall be won¬ 
derfully well pleased. They weighed 46 
pounds when put in the lots. If they are 
double that weight when they go out, 
feeders here will call it a maximum gain. 
Ross Co., Ohio. john m. jamison. 
Since I have been following this busi¬ 
ness as a part of the Winter’s work on 
the farm, it has been my custom to gather 
all the information possible from all di¬ 
rections and sources in reach. I would 
have commenced this work long before I 
did, except for the fact that I once heard 
an address by a stock feeder that dis¬ 
couraged me from the undertaking. But 
the abundance of clover, hay and corn 
products on the farm caused me to make a 
start with one- deck. From that I have 
worked up to three or four decks; I now 
have in the lots 420, 259 western, the 
remainder natives. I still read all that 
comes to my hand relating to this work. 
This habit caused me at once when The 
R. N.-Y. of January 6, came to hand, to 
notice and read Mr. Van Alstyne’s article. 
This year I have all the feed on the farm 
necessary to fatten my lambs. I have 
never fed oil meal, cotton-seed meal, brew¬ 
ers’ grains, or silage to lambs, and while 
I can succeed as well as I have been do¬ 
ing, I shall not purchase any of the com¬ 
mercial feed stuffs, and as yet have not 
been favorable to building a silo, and 
making silage. The labor connected with 
it, caused me rather to exclude it from 
my thoughts. 
Mr. Van Alstyne’s plan is to cause 
as much grain to be eaten as possible. 
Mine is to use as much hay and fodder 
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Breeders’ Directory 
IT’S A FACT 
That we now have more young cows of milkiug age 
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THE STEVENS HERD. Established 187«! 
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Brookside Stock Farm, Lacona, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 
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A. R. O. COWS, ALL AGES. 
Correspondence solicited. Visitors welcomed. 
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Pure Bred Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
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