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FEEDING SHEEP AND LAMBS. 
Will some one give a good method of 
fattening lambs for early market, also a 
good grain ration for ewes with lambs. 
Rosemont, N. J. f. w. e. 
Ans.— I take it the ration is for 
lambs born last Spring, to be fed dur¬ 
ing Winter. To insure best growth, it 
is important that the lambs should be 
in small flocks and graded according to 
size and ability to digest food. It is 
impossible to attain best results without 
some form of succulence. A quart of 
roots per lamb a day, in two feeds, is 
excellent. Failing to have the roots, 
from three pecks to a bushel of silage 
to every 25 lambs is a good substitute. 
If neither is to be had a few small po¬ 
tatoes or apples will help out. Cabbage 
is excellent. With no succulence I 
would feed liberally of oil meal. Feed 
this grain ration in the roots or silage 
in two feeds. Then earlv-cut clover or 
mixed hay—never Timothy—what they 
will eat up clean morning and night. 
The cost of the grains will do much to 
determine what kind to feed, always re¬ 
membering the lamb must have food to 
grow its bone, blood and muscle as well 
as fat. Taking this Winter’s prices into 
account, would advise 100 pounds of 
corn—it does not pay to grind grain for 
sheep—50 pounds of oats, same amount 
of bran, and if with roots or silage 50 
pounds of cotton-seed meal. If there 
is no succulence, half that amount, and 
25 pounds of linseed meal, the nutted 
meal to be preferred. Give as much of 
this as the lambs will eat up clean, and 
be ready to come hungry to the trough 
for the next feed. There is no stock 
which need so careful looking after as 
lambs. Once overfed, it may be a week 
before they will eat enough to more 
than maintain them. Give a light feed 
of hay in the morning, then sweep the 
mangers clean and put in just what 
they will greedily clean up. Then in 
the afternoon another light feed of hay, 
and another grain feed at night. If they 
are given too much hay they will not 
take so much grain. If the grain is 
given first they will not eat enough hay 
to keep them in best condition. The aim 
should be to get them to eat all the 
grain they can digest and assimilate in 
order to get the greatest growth in the 
shortest possible time. If any is left 
take it out and feed to something else, 
and skip the next grain feed. Never 
put hay or grain on top of any left 
which the lambs have breathed on. 
Never feed from a V-shaped trough, 
as it is difficult to keep the center free 
from filth. The lambs should have 
access to fresh clean water at all times, 
as well as salt. 
Breeding ewes need very much the 
same sort of feed as the dairy cow, 
both before and after calving. All that 
has been said about succulence for 
lambs applies equally well to sheep. It 
is very important that ewes should have 
abundance of ash-bone material, and 
protein-blood and muscle material from 
which to build the lamb. Clover hay 
will furnish both, so will oats, bran, 
dried grains and linseed meal. If they 
are not to lamb before late Spring, 
clover hay with succulence and some 
light stalks will serve, until about four 
or six weeks before the lambs are ex¬ 
pected. Then begin with a gill daily of 
any one of the above, or better, a com¬ 
bination of them. 
Unless the sheep are in extra good 
condition the amount may be increased 
to one pint. This food will also pro¬ 
duce milk in the udder for the lamb. 
Never feed any corn before the birth 
of the lamb unless the sheep are very 
thin . and then only in small quantity, 
for it is heating and deficient in bone 
and blood material. After the lambs 
are born, and begin to take all the milk, 
corn can be added to the above. I 
usually feed the ewes after lambing the 
same grain I give my cows, as that is 
the sort of feed for the time being. I 
can get greatest value for my money. It 
will pay to mix some form of tobacco 
with the salt for both ewes and lambs 
to destroy intestinal worms. e. v. a. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
Lime Sulphur and Lice. 
I saw an inquiry for a remedy for lousy 
hogs, and as I have had some experience, 
I would like to make a few suggestions. 
After using the creosote and coal tar dips 
for several years with varying success, I 
became dissatisfied with them because of 
the various differences in strength, necessity 
of heating water for dilution, etc., and 
after experimenting for two years with 
lime-sulphur solution. I find it much bet¬ 
ter, as it not only kills lice, ticks and nita, 
but absolutely kills scab, mange, etc., and 
if one has no dipping tank, use a force 
pump or a common sprinkling pot. Use 
the solution one gallon lime-sulphur to 15 
gallons of water either for hogs, sheep or 
cattle, and while the lime will make the 
hair look white for a few days, this soon 
disappears. Try it and report. 
Iowa. CHAS. O. GARBETT. 
Horses Tear Blanket. 
In answering S. D. on page 1182 about 
blanket tearing I would suggest putting a 
crupper on the blanket; it would keep it 
in place. I am doing it now; it works 
fine. j. e. H. 
New York. 
You suggest a muzzle. As this must be 
removed when feeding, the horse will cer¬ 
tainly make use of this time to tear off 
the blanket. I have broken them when 
others wagered it could not be done, by 
taking a light hickory stick long enough 
to reach from a surcingle to the check 
ring on halter, having a .snap on each end 
fastened to stick by short strap. This will 
not .prevent the horse from feeding or lay¬ 
ing down but will prevent him from reach¬ 
ing blanket. Another and better way is the 
use of a chain muzzle fastened to halter 
by straps to the cheek pieces with a 
broad band of leather to which is attached 
woven chain open at the bottom to allow 
the horse to feed freely, but when he 
reaches for the blanket it falls across the 
mouth. Properly applied, it is taken on 
and off with the halter and will positively 
prevent this annoying and costly habit. 
These can be procured from any large'city 
harness dealer. w. p. c. 
Wayne Co., Pa. 
We read in the Bible “Thou shalt not 
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.” 
On page 1182 the question is asked how to 
stop a horse from tearing off his blanket. 
The muzzle is recommended as the only 
cure. Several years ago I had a horse 
that strained a suspensory ligament; he 
was rather high-spirited and would tear 
off the bandage every night. The veterin¬ 
ary told me to dissolve aloes in water and 
soak the bandage. It was a complete cure. 
I kept him 18 years and bandaged him a 
great many times, but never had a bandagfc 
pulled off afterwards. D. l. well. 
New York. 
Lameness. 
I have a horse that is lame. The lame¬ 
ness seems to be below the fetlock and 
above the hoof. He has been lame for about 
six months and favors that foot entirely. I 
cannot make him back any more. Thelioof 
is entirely sound, and has shown no sore¬ 
ness. If I touch just above the hoof it 
seems to be tender and he will draw his 
foot away. No sores have appeared and 
no swelling is present. It can hardly be 
gravel, or it would break and run before 
this. I asked a veterinarian and he said 
he could not tell what it was without see¬ 
ing it, but he thought the horse would 
never get well. Can you give me some ad¬ 
vice? It is the front foot, and the horse 
has done very little work since he went 
lame. l. l. f. 
Oregon. 
A careful examination is absolutely neces¬ 
sary for the diagnosis of the seat and cause 
of a lameness such as you describe, and 
you should therefore employ a Veterinarian 
to make the examination and then prescribe 
necessary treatment. Much more has been 
lost in the idleness of the horse than would 
have sufficed to pay for the examination and 
treatment; besides this, the horse should 
have been saved the pain he has suffered. 
If be stands with the foot thrust out in 
front, the foot is the seat of the lameness; 
otherwise it is elsewhere. If it proves to be 
chronic navicular disease, unnerving will 
have to be done, and that will require the 
skill of the trained surgeon. a. s. a. 
fected by the bacillus necrophorous and 
then we have a genuine, bad case of foot 
rot. Remove the cause. Cleanse the parts 
and cut away all loose, rotten or under-run 
horn of hoof; then soak for a few moments 
in a saturated solution of sulphate of cop¬ 
per (blue stone) made as hot as the hand 
will bear. Afterward cover the sores with 
calomel, to be held in place by means of a 
layer of oakum on which pine tar has been 
lightly smeared; then put on a bandage. 
Renew the dressing each other day. Often 
a pack of oakum, saturated in fulf strength 
coal tar dip and kept bound upon the parts 
will suffice as treatment. a. s. a. 
Scurfy Skin; Worms. 
_ 1. Can you tell me the cause why a fat 
pig should get scabby around its tail, legs 
and feet, and is continually rubbing itself 
until the parts affected bleed? Would a 
pig such as this be fit for food while 
this is still on body? The pig has had 
lots of exercise and good dry sleeping quar¬ 
ters. 2. I have a four-year-old mare that 
stays in thin condition and sweats easily. 
Her hair looks all right and she seems to 
be healthy. Could you tell me the reason 
why she sweats so easy? 3. I have small 
pigs about two months old that have been 
passing long white worms. Can you tell me 
anything to rid them of worms? 
Canada. g. b. 
1. Heavy feeding and confinement induce 
this skin irritation and lice often are 
found present. It can be cured by dipping 
or spraying, using a 1-100 solution of coal 
tar dip. The affected pigs should be given 
abundant exercises daily and be fed mixed 
rations to keep bowels open. 2. Indiges¬ 
tion is the cause. Clip the hair from her ' 
belly and from legs above knees and hocks. 
Have her teeth attended to by a veterin¬ 
arian. Reduce grain rations and increase 
daily exercise or work. 3. Dissolve cop¬ 
peras (sulphate of iron) in the slop at the 
rate of one dram for each hundred pounds 
of pigs. Give this for five mornings in 
succession. A . s. a. 
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