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TALKS ABOUT SHEEP. 
An All-Round Breed Wanted. 
I am going into the sheep business and 
what is the best breed tor all-'round sheep? 
Is the Shropshire as good as any, and is 
the Tunis the best for Winter lambs, or is 
the Dorset? Is the Cheviot good for all- 
'round sheep? a. p. r. 
Earlville, X. Y. 
This is always a most difficult question 
to answer, for one does not know for 
just what purpose the questioner in¬ 
tends to keep sheep. For an “all round” 
sheep I would refer to an article on 
page 67 of T he R. N.-Y. on the mutton 
Merinos. They come pretty near to 
filling the bill. There is no more popu¬ 
lar sheep than the Shropshire, a breed 
that the writer has kept for many years. 
Vet I would not call them an “all 
'round” sheep, with all their excellent 
qualities, for mutton and wool. The 
Cheviots are good rustlers—better in 
this respect than the Shropshires—but 
they will not fill the bill any better—in 
fact, with sheep as with cattle, one 
needs to keep a sheep best fitted for the 
particular purpose of the owner, and 
best adapted to his surroundings. As 
between the Tunis and Dorset it is 
largely a matter of personal opinion. 
The latter are more numerous and for 
this reason good ones are more easily 
obtained from them than the former. 
Roth are particularly adapted for rais¬ 
ing early lambs. Except for this pur¬ 
pose Tunis have no value. I say this as 
a breeder of them. If T should say the 
same of the Dorsets the breeders of 
them would say T was prejudiced against 
them, so will not say it, although T may 
“do a lot of thinkin’. ” 
Oil Meal For Sheep. 
Will oil meal cause sheep to lose their 
wool? I have a flock of sheep, and I 
am feeding them about one peek of oil meal 
with other grain and they are losing their 
wool. What is the cause of this? They 
have no ticks, so I know that is not the 
cause. a. n. 
New York. 
Without question oil meal will not 
make sheep lose their wool. The 
amount mentioned for that number is 
in no case excessive. When sheep get 
thin and cease to grow, their wool also 
stops growing too. If one will examine 
a sheep’s fleece at shearing time he can 
easily tell by the weakness of the fibre 
•if the sheep has been sick or in poor 
condition. If after they have been thin 
they are suddenly given a large ration 
of grain that starts them growing 
quickly, it will usually start the wool so 
that it will come out. Quite likely this 
is the trouble in this case. It is also 
possible that they have small skin para¬ 
sites, lnaj'be scab. Examine their skin 
with a glass where the wool comes out 
worst, and then they should be seen if 
there. If so shear the sheep, for they 
will lose their wool anyway. Keep them 
warm and rub their flesh with some of 
the carbolic petroleum dips. 
EDWARD VAX ALSTYNE. 
TRAINING THE COLT. 
I have read with considerable inter¬ 
est the articles in The R. N.-Y. on the 
training of colts and horses, and think 
that my experience may help some one 
who has much work to do and little 
time to do it in. We are often told 
that the time to begin the education of a 
colt is about as soon as it is born. That 
might be all right if one had nothing 
else to do; even then it would be a 
waste of time. A good many methods of 
horse training are, I think, unnecessar¬ 
ily cruel, and take too much time. I 
will not describe the methods in common 
use, but will tell of the way which 
worked to my entire satisfaction and 
had the merit of not taking much time. 
In the Winter before the colt was three 
years old I hitched him up with an old 
horse; then I put an extra set of single 
lines on the colt. I took the double lines 
and bad a man with me to pull on the 
single lines, when it was necessary. Pre¬ 
vious to this the colt had never had a 
' T ur e; rural new-yorkeh 
bit in his mouth. We drove five miles 
to a village, where he saw nearly all 
the things which usually scare horses, 
but he did not pay any attention to them, 
the bit in his mouth seemed to take all 
his attention. He was driven in that 
way two or three times; then nothing 
more was done till time to sow oats. 
Then I put him in the middle of a three- 
horse team and hitched them to a spring 
tooth harrow. The harrow was not set 
to run deep and I did not work him long 
at a time. A colt does not like to make 
a short turn, but with an old horse on 
each side of him to pull him around he 
soon learns what to do. At first, of 
course, I tie the other horses’ whiffle- 
tree back so the colt does not have to 
draw unless he wants to. After two les¬ 
sons on the harrow, I could hitch him 
with another horse and drive them any¬ 
where and have never had any trouble 
with him since. He has never been 
afraid of anything. I have since trained 
another in the same way and with entire 
success. This one, however, is some¬ 
what skittish, but not nearly so much 
so as others that had become accus¬ 
tomed to the bit before they saw the 
sights. Of course all horses are not 
alike, any more than people are, but in 
any case I think it is safe to say, don’t 
use the whip unless you really have to, 
and don’t use loud talk anyway. 
Saratoga Co., X. Y. g. v. 
THE AMERICAN HOG. 
Under the caption, “Farming and Farm 
Education,” in your issue of December 14, 
S. C. A. especially lauds the Yorkshire hog, 
perhaps deservedly, and in the same con¬ 
nection refers to our American-bred swine, 
and through them to the American' swine 
breeder, in a way that leads one to Infer 
that the American farmer and breeder had 
failed in producing the type of hog best 
fitted to his capacity for production and 
markets. While I am not going to take 
any exceptions to his claims for the York¬ 
shire, grown in Canada, where climatic 
conditions affect materially the kinds of 
grains and grasses that may jbe success¬ 
fully raised, I, with thousamTs of other 
breeders, am ready to champion the claims 
of the American breeder and his product, 
not only to the confidence of the public, well 
aware of the great merit and high distTnc- 
lions his wares have earned in competitive 
exhibitions, but because the American hog 
by selection and environment has become 
the most economical converter of feed-stoffs 
into high-quality meat. 
Our American farmers are accustomed to 
raising breeds of hogs that will, often 
reaching a weight of 100 pounds on food 
rich in protein, and then having the 
framework and muscles well formed, take 
on a gain of 1V6 pound of flesh daily, on 
a minimum amount of feed, many experi¬ 
ments showing a gain of from 14 to 17 
pounds from feed equal to one bushel of 
corn in weight and price. It is only with 
such hogs of the highest type of the breed¬ 
ers’ art tbat this result can be accom¬ 
plished. As Coburn, of Kansas, says: 
"High class swine are impossible and un¬ 
known except among people of a high or¬ 
der,” and so we find the farmer who is j 
reaping handsome profits from his business, 
generally a man of high order, who is sur¬ 
rounded on his farm with stock of every 
kind, of high quality On the reverse side 
Coburn says: “High class swine are im¬ 
possible among a low-class people,” and this 
is true not only with swine but also of all 
kinds of live stock, and from the same cause 
we find the man of mental order who is 
satisfied to raise any kind of stock that 
just happens, taking his profits in the same 
way, and quite ofteu with the price of 
live stock fluctuating, as recently it lias 
been doing, the producer who manages his 
business in a haphazard way has to pocket 
a loss. Referring to Mr. Coburn again, he 
says about the American hog, repeating the 
words of a former cabinet minister, “In 
the American hog we have an automatic* 
combined machine for reducing bulk in corn 
and enhancing its value; that he Is a mint, 
and the corn of our common country the 
bullion he transmutes into the golden coin.” 
I wish to add that no money is more hon¬ 
estly earned than that which the American 
breeder receives for his products, and the 
great benefits that have been conferred 
upon the whole live stock business by the 
few, who have been untiring in their am¬ 
bitions and effort to add to quality, perfec¬ 
tion. No money Is more cheerfully paid 
than that which the average man con¬ 
tributes, for bis American bred, fed and 
cured pork, beef and mutton. 
Michigan. s. h. taylor. 
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In fact you are losing 50 per cent. With¬ 
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The Sharpies 
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Union Mills, Ind. 
Gentlemen:— We have a Sharpies '“ubular. 
Before we bought it. wo had been selling our 
milk to a creamery at Union Mills, getting not 
more than S8.00 a month, but since we have 
the Tubular, we have been getting twice 
more, and are so satisfied with the 'Tubular. 
Mrs. John C. Miller 
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extra profit will soon pay for the separator while it 
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R ESULTS IN THE MILK PAIL at milking time 
tell whether your cows are making you^money 
Mr. Farmer. Perhaps your experi- 
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Badger Dairy 
Feed 
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