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Live Stock and Dairy 
COMBINATION RACK FOR SHEEP. 
Will you give me full directions for mak¬ 
ing a combination rack for sheep? I have 
about GO ewes and want a portable rack 
with trough on both sides. K. J. L. 
Maryland. 
A good serviceable combination rack 
for feeding sheep may be made accord¬ 
ing to the plan shown below. Allow 20 
or 24 inches of space for each sheep, 
and have the upright slats not less than 
eight or more than 12 inches apart, 
varying all dimensions according to size 
of sheep. All lumber needed is one-inch 
stuff, excepting the 4x4 cross sills, which 
may be spaced five or six feet apart. 
The upright slats may be V/t or two 
inches wide and rounded somewhat to 
prevent tearing the wool. The top of 
rack may be 24 inches above the floor 
of trough, and upright sides shown in 
end view is to be preferred to the slop¬ 
ing sides of b. The rack must be 
cleaned out before feeding grain, so 
plan a would seem better than plan b, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 21, 
the dogs kill any but twice in the last 12 
years; then the town officials have been 
ready to do the fair thing by us. The 
man who owns the dog is the one who 
feels sore over it. We find that four 
barbed wires will stop them, but a stone 
fence that is not top-poled is just the 
exercise they enjoy. This part of Con¬ 
necticut is a land of neglected oppor¬ 
tunities ; the old sheep men are about 
all gone, or too old to look after the 
flock, and the boys, if, at home, do not 
take to them. We have the only flock 
I know of in four towns around here. 
But another'side appeals to me; what 
other thing can help cut down the high 
cost of living like a small flock of sheep? 
We have our own meat at cost, and 
always neighbors are eager to get all 
we can spare. The hard part is to save 
enough for our necessities, and when 
we buy beef, as we cannot live on sheep 
alone, we realize what it would be if we 
did not have the sheep. Catering to the 
people who come to the beaches is the 
best chance to get the whole of the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar, I know, and at a time 
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DIAGRAM OF COMBINATION SHEEP RACK. 
which has the further disadvantage of 
allowing chaff to get into the wool on 
the necks of the sheep. Perhaps these 
racks may be made wider, but it should 
be kept in mind that the sheep should 
be able to reach easily afl over the 
bottom of the trough, and that all di¬ 
mensions should be varied to suit the 
sheep to be fed. W. E. D. 
of the year when things can be raised 
at their best at the lowest cost. 
Connecticut. c. d. manwaring. 
SHEEP FOR THE SHORE TRADE. 
My father for years has kept a small 
flock of sheep, from 25 to 40, just com¬ 
mon sheep, using a good ram—formerly 
mostly Dorset, but the last few years 
the Shropshire. He planned to have 
lambs dropped from about March 15 
usually till April 15, and these lambs 
will weigh in July and August from 
60 to 80 pounds. They shrink one-half 
in dressing, and that gives us a carcass 
of from 30 to 40 pounds. The hind 
quarters weigh seven to 10 pounds and 
bring $2.10 to $3 each. The fore quar¬ 
ters bring from $1 to $2, and we never 
get enough to go around. When the 
people come, about July 4, I go and get 
orders, and then get orders each week 
for the next; do not raise enough to go 
oftener or to nearly supply the demand. 
The raising of them is an easy matter; 
we try to have the ewes in good flesh 
in the Fall on mowings or Fall feed, 
and if they do not get fat enough we 
feed some shelled corn and sometimes 
the older ones or those that are not 
dping as well as we would like we put 
by themselves and feed extra, but any¬ 
way we do not want a poor sheep when 
the lambs are dropped; if we do, there 
is trouble ahead. They will not have 
milk and will not own their lambs. They 
run on the pasture till the snow comes, 
for the last two or three years has been 
just about Christmas. Then we Jake 
them home and give them about three 
to four bushels of turnips cut in a 
root cutter, and salt hay, Timothy, corn¬ 
stalks, millet, or anything we have. 
They have no such luxuries as clover 
hay, for we do not raise much. We 
used to run a dairy and have silage, 
and it was liked by the sheep, but had 
to cut the dairy out to live, and got a 
flock of hens in its place. We do not fill 
the silo, and the turnips are the next best 
thing and very easy to raise. We find 
some succulent crop a necessity, and that 
is about the only thing that cannot be 
varied without bad results. 
In the Spring, when the grass starts, 
we put them away to pasture two miles 
from home, and do not see them except 
about once a week till July, when we go 
to get the lambs to sell. We bell the 
sheep well with small cow bells, and if a 
dog gets them to running they make a 
good deal of racket. We have not had 
MANAGING TWO LITTERS A YEAR. 
I never breed a sow before she is nine 
months old, and always raise two litters 
of pigs a year. The Fall litters come 
September 20 to October 1. Pigs born 
in November and December just at the 
beginning of cold weather, unless ex¬ 
ceptionally well cared for, are liable to 
remain pigs until the next Spring or 
later. The Spring litters come March 
20 to April 1. I would rather have them 
come a little earlier, but do not like to 
risk a cold spell by having them come 
in February or early in March. In car¬ 
ing for the brood sow plenty of exer¬ 
cise, with green feed, roots, etc., is very 
essential. The feed I provide is mostly 
muscle and bone-producing, such as 
bran, middlings, oil meal, ground oats 
and skim-milk. It is not the part of 
wisdom to load the brood sow down 
with fat by feeding her too much corn. 
This grain does not contain the neces¬ 
sary elements for the proper growth of 
the unborn pigs or the well-doing of the 
sow at farrowing time. I give my sows 
a liberal supply of salt and wood ashes, 
which helps to satisfy an appetite that 
sometimes causes a sow to eat her pigs. 
I let them have the run of a wood lot 
and a Blue grass pasture. About a week 
before farrowing I put the sow in a 
clean, warm pen by herself, and do not 
give her much bedding and never dis¬ 
turb her. When she is about to farrow 
I feed her lightly for two or three days 
previous. I always try to be present at 
farrowing time to assist the sow in case 
help is necessary. After the sow has 
farrowed I give her plenty of clear, cool 
water, as her system is apt to be in a 
feverish condition. I feed her lightly 
for several days with bran and skim 
milk, gradually increasing the feed. As 
soon as the pigs begin to partake of 
food other than that received from the 
dam I give them some middlings with 
milk and a little soaked corn occasion¬ 
ally. I watch them pretty close the first, 
month, for on this depends the future 
profit or loss. If the pigs do not get 
milk enough they will be stunted, while, 
on the other hand, if they get too much 
they will have the scours. By feeding 
them well for seven or eight weeks they 
will be ready to wean without a backset. 
Exercise is a very important feature for 
the proper development of bone and 
muscle of little pigs, and if the sow is 
confined in a pen, which is poor policy 
after the pigs are old enough to run 
about, but often the case on many farms, 
an opening should be made where the 
pigs may go in and out at pleasure. 
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