1907. 
THK RURAt NEW-YORKER 
031 
KEEPING SHEEP FOR MANURE. 
We are engaged in the florist business, 
and have very poor facilities for obtaining 
manure. We thought that sheep might 
help to solve our problem, as we can spare 
an acre or two of land each year to be en¬ 
riched, which could be fenced and seeded 
with different kinds of green feed. We 
do not wish to make a business of raising 
sheep, simply want a certain number to 
enrich the soil. We have been growing 
cow peas, Canada peas, rye, clover and Soy 
beans, all for plowing under. What breed 
of sheep woud be best, for us to keep, that 
is, the hardiest, and what would be the 
most economical feed for them? We are 
not looking for fancy breeds, simply a small 
flock to be used as a manure factory. About 
how many could be kept on two acres? We 
think the above method better than buying 
water-soaked straw at $2.75 per ton. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. h. a. m. 
I have some doubt as to the feasibil¬ 
ity of this plan in its practical work¬ 
ings. Theoretically it might be done; 
but after a rather wide and varied ex¬ 
perience in trying to combine as side 
issues things excellent in themselves, 
with one’s main work or crops, I am 
coming to the belief that most times it 
does not pay. First, one cannot devote 
to them all the time they demand for 
best results. Second, the increased care 
adds to one’s mental and physical tasks, 
often heavy enough already, and the 
supposed gain is seeming rather than 
real. Third, unless a line of work un¬ 
dertaken is large enough to make it 
worth some one’s special care, it usually 
suffers. 
With this preface as a warning, I will 
try to answer the questions asked. The 
idea, as I take it, is not to pasture, but 
to feed the sheep from the one or two 
acres. If they are in a high state of 
fertility, so that they will produce abun¬ 
dantly of the soiling crops mentioned, 
and two or three of them on the same 
ground in a season, with the addition of 
some purchased grain, 20 or 25 sheep 
might be kept on this amount of ground. 
The money invested in this grain would 
be better expended, so far as fertility 
is concerned, if properly fed and the 
manure saved, than in buying “water- 
soaked straw at $2.75 per ton.” Sheep, 
however, like to range, and will not do 
as well in confinement as cattle. Again, 
unless they were yarded, with an abun¬ 
dance of litter, the place would soon be¬ 
come foul, and many troubles incident 
to sheep under such conditions would 
follow. Unless there was enough of 
such litter under cover much of the 
value would be lost, both from the es¬ 
cape of the urine, and by leaching from 
rains. To give an idea of the value of 
urine from sheep, as compared with 
solid excrements, I quote from Prof. 
Woll’s tables: Sheep excrement, solid, 
nitrogen, .55; potash, .15; phosphoric 
acid, .31; -liquid, nitrogen, 1.95; potash, 
2.26; phosphoric acid, .01. This will at 
once demonstrate that for the keeping 
of sheep to be of any value for purpose 
stated, they must be under cover, with 
enough litter to absorb all the urine, 
which would add to the expense and 
not be as good for the sheep. Prof. 
Woll also says a sheep will produce 
during a year 760 pounds of solid and 
380 pounds of liquid manure. Prof 
Roberts conducted experiments at Cor¬ 
nell some years ago with a few sheep, 
kept in pens on galvanized iron pans, 
with fine-cut wheat straw for bedding, 
where they were fed liberally on rich 
grains, and he found the manure made 
was worth $4.17 per ton and the excre¬ 
ment separate from the bedding $4.85; 
also that there was a difference of aboqt 
$1 less per ton in the value of the ma¬ 
nure made when the sheep had no grain. 
A French writer gives the value of the 
manure made from a single sheep in a 
year, as worth at the market value of 
fertilizer ingredients $2.29. This is the 
commercial value, the agricultural, or 
better, in this case, floricultural value, 
would be much more. All of which is 
true and sounds well, and figures equally 
well; but I believe, under conditions 
mentioned, it would not pay. If the ex 
periment is to be tried, buy some grade 
ewes or wethers, thin in flesh, of one 
of the mutton breeds (black-faced pre¬ 
ferred). Such sheep will do better in 
confinement than the fine wools. Feed 
them liberally on the foods mentioned 
with plenty of corn and oil cake. 
Be sure to keep their quarters clean, and 
remove any feed left in sacks or man¬ 
gers before putting in fresh. As soon 
as they are fat send them to market; and 
put in another lot. Don't attempt to 
keep breeding ewes and raise lambs. 
Above all, grow some turnips and feed 
them liberally, and success attend you. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
INDIGESTION AND WORMS. 
The hair on my fomhyear-old colt stands 
erect, every rib can he seen (although not 
in poor order) and he eats everything he 
gets hold of, including bedding. My six- 
year-old mare is in the same condition, only 
she is in poor order, passes short w v te 
worms with her manure and makes wa*er of 
a clay color in small amo'.nts from three 
to four times an hour. I feed them five ears 
of corn and about four pounds of hay three 
times a day when not in pasture, and work 
them very little. Mare was bred last 
Spring. What is the trouble and what can 
I do for them? i. R. 
Mich’gan. 
When a horse’s coat is in the condi¬ 
tion described, and commonly termed 
“hidebound,” it is plain evidence of the 
fact that his entire system is out of 
order, and the causes of such derange¬ 
ment are many. Often bad ventilation 
and the consequent contamination of the 
air with injurious gases from the lungs 
of the animals, and decomposing solid 
and liquid excreta explain the trouble, 
but it likewise may indicate indigestion 
from presence of worms, or from im¬ 
proper or unsound food, or too hard 
or contaminated drinking water. All 
of these things have to be considered 
carefully in looking for the cause of 
indigestion and staring coat, and when 
the actual cause has been located the 
chief of the necessary means toward re¬ 
covery has been adopted. Then it re¬ 
mains to give the horse sufficient groom¬ 
ing, laxative foods, plenty of exercise 
and possibly a little corrective or altera¬ 
tive medicine. In the particular case in 
question worms are apparently the im¬ 
mediate cause of indigestion, but it 
should be remembered that practically 
all farm horses are exposed to worm 
invasion when they graze at pasture and 
also drink water from old troughs or 
watering places where worm eggs are 
sure to be taken in, but it usually is the 
run-down horse or the one that is kept 
in unsanitary surroundings that proves 
the chosen host of the parasites, and 
shows their ill effects in the highest de¬ 
gree. It therefore is necessary to pro¬ 
vide sanitary surroundings for horses 
at the time worms are treated for by 
administration of medicines. Then, too, 
it must be remembered that in the case 
of mares in foal medicines sufficiently 
strong to destroy or cause the voiding 
of worms from the intestines are liable 
to cause abortion, and for that reason 
we cannot take the responsibility of pre¬ 
scribing worm medicine for them, but 
would suggest better care, stabling and 
feeding than usually are given where 
worms are causing trouble. For the 
colt give twice daily a tablespoonful of 
a mixture of one part dried sulphate of 
iron and two parts each of flowers of 
sulphur, ground gentian root and com¬ 
mon salt. Feed well on oats and bran 
instead of corn; bed with baled shav¬ 
ings, and see that hay is free from 
mold. Change feed of mare in same 
way. A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
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