1913. 
THE KURA.L, NEW-YORKER 
SMALL vs. LARGE SHEEP. 
The question often arises as to which 
proves itself the more profitable to the 
breeder and feeder of sheep, a big, heavy 
sheep or a small but better quality one. 
There is a great tendency among farm¬ 
ers nowadays, in all districts where soil 
and climate are suitable, to cultivate a 
big sheep, their contention being that 
when the two-year-olds come into the 
market the bigger and heavier ones 
realize more than the smaller ones. 
That is quite true, and there is a good 
deal to be said on the side of a big 
sheep; but when all the pros and cons 
Are carefully taken into consideration 
it is a great question if a smaller, bet¬ 
ter quality sheep will not prove far 
more profitable to the breeder in the 
long run. Let us, for instance, take 
the Oxford and Hampshire cross as a 
type of big sheep, it being a favorite 
cross, and the Shropshire as an ex¬ 
ample of a smaller and, it may be said 
with all due respect to the beforemen- 
tioned cross, a better quality sheep. 
It is well known that big sheep are 
big consumers, and consequently cannot 
be so thick on the land as small sheep 
can, and, for instance, where 100 breed¬ 
ing ewes of the Oxford-Hampshire type 
can be kept, 140 Shropshires could be 
run on the same given quality of land. 
Then, too, the Shropshire is more pro¬ 
lific than any other short-wooled breed, 
and whereas one and one-fourth lamb 
per ewe is considered quite a satisfac¬ 
tory average in the Oxford or Hamp¬ 
shire flocks, or the cross between the 
two above-named, one and one-fourth 
is quite common and one and one-half 
the usual average in Shropshire flocks, 
so that, taking the example before men¬ 
tioned, on the same given quantity of 
land 100 cross Oxford-ITampshires 
would produce 125 lambs and the 140 
Shropshires in all probability would pro¬ 
duce 220, mortality being about the 
same in both cases. And again, when 
the time comes for the lambs to go on 
grain there is no comparison between 
the amount that an Oxford-Hampshire 
will consume as against the Shropshire. 
One and one-half pounds of grain per 
day is about the average quantity given 
to the first mentioned sheep, whereas 
half that allowance is ample and that 
amount is all that is generally allowed 
to a Shropshire. Therefore, the quan¬ 
tity of grain consumed by the Shrop¬ 
shires, although nearly a hundred more, 
would be considerably less per day than 
that consumed by the Oxford-Hamp- 
shires, and in five or six months’ feed¬ 
ing would amount to a pretty substantial 
difference. 
Also, a Shropshire will clip as great 
a weight of wool as any other short- 
wooled breed, and generally realizes 
more; and when draft ewes come to be 
sold in the Autumn, those of the Shrop¬ 
shire or more compact type are far 
better to sell, as appearance often goes 
against the sale of a big, unshapely 
old ewe. The mutton also is of bet¬ 
ter quality, and makes more per pound 
in the market than any save the South¬ 
down. In going, therefore, so much 
for size, farmers are standing a good 
deal in their own light, and if they 
do get a trifle per head more for their 
big cross-bred two-year-olds, they are 
at the same time forgetting the extra 
cost of keep and the much smaller 
number they have to sell. Of course, 
with the long wool varieties their chief 
merit lies in their wool, as mutton sheep 
they do not excel and the argument 
does not apply to them. 
MORE ABOUT FARM BEES. 
J. C. Wickham’s explanation on page 
o40 of the decadence of farm bee keep¬ 
ing is a most reasonable one and his 
points are well taken. It seems to be 
true that the older a country grows 
the greater the number of pests there 
are to be fought and the greater the 
vigilance required if any crop is to be 
saved. It is true that foul brood has 
wiped out a large part of the bees 
formerly kept in box hives, and that 
the common black bee can no longer 
be safely kept in the old way. This 
need not deter the would-be bee keeper 
fiom attempting to produce honey by 
modern methods, however, as with 
movable frame hives and Italian bees 
toul brood is not a difficult disease to 
combat and an apiary may be kept free 
from it, even though surrounded by 
diseased colonies. To do this requires 
some knowledge, attention, and effort 
and the farmer whose time and strength 
are more than taken by other duties 
may find it cheaper to purchase his 
honey, just as dairymen frequently find it 
preferable to buy their butter. Those 
who can spare the time required for 
the care of a few “skeps,” and who 
are not averse to coping with the disa¬ 
greeable features connected with it, will 
find few crops returning as satisfactory 
a margin of profit, provided that they 
keep their apiary within reasonable 
limits and learn to handle it properly. 
It must be confessed, however, that 
this is work better suited to the small 
farmer, the poultryman and fruit grower 
than to those whose farm operations 
are upon such a scale as to exhaust 
them in body and mind before cows and 
crops are cared for. No one who 
keeps bees at all should fail to send 
to the Department of Agriculture, Divi¬ 
sion of Publications, Washington, D. 
C., for Farmers’ Bulletin 442, which 
describes foul brood and its treatment. 
M. B. D. 
Obstructed Teat. 
I have a cow that has trouble with one 
of her teats: was milking free and all 
right and all at once I could hardly get 
any milk from one teat, and the third milk¬ 
ing I could not get any. I am milking her 
with a tube. It is getting so I can hardly 
pass the tube in. The trouble seems to be 
about three-fourths of an inch in teat. 
There apparently is no lump. Can you tell 
me what to do? * H. 
Pennsylvania. 
A dilator is needed as well as the milking 
tube as a stricture seems to be present. 
Both instruments will have to be boiled for 
15 or 20 minutes each time before use 
else they will be certain to carry infection 
into the udder and lead t<> ruinous garget. 
If the dilator does not suffice then a veter¬ 
inarian may decide to operate with a teat 
bistoury. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a seven-year-old mare which, after 
driving has swollen fetlock and the swelling 
went awards into the hock joint and above. 
The leg is half as large again as the other 
leg. At first she could not bear any weight 
on it. The soreness has so far disappeared 
so that she now stands on it and kicks 
with the other foot against the partition 
when eating feed, as some horses do. While 
the soreness of the leg decreased the swell¬ 
ing passed upwards quite some distance 
above the hock joint. I can find no sore¬ 
ness about the foot and leg by pressure. I 
found nothing the matter with the foot. 
New Jersey. e. a. d. 
Without having an opportunity to make 
an examination we can only guess at what 
may be the matter but we certainly sus¬ 
pect that the lameness is not a new trou¬ 
ble. It seems likely that she interferes 
when driven. Try driving her with an in¬ 
terfering boot or spreaders, or a bracelet 
of wooden balls. Also have her fitted with 
shoes to prevent it; interfering shoes. These 
the si ith will be able to make after study¬ 
ing her gait. If the ankle is weak and the 
tendons are involved it may prove necessary 
to have them line-fired and blistered by a 
qualified veterinarian. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a horse which went lame on his 
right foot about three weeks ago, at which 
time I thought he wrenched the cords or 
some ligaments in his leg, which I treated 
by rubbing a mixture of two parts iodine 
to one part turpentine on his leg once a 
day for three days. He was about in the 
same condition (limping quite bad) for 
10 days when he began to favor the other 
front foot. He did uot limp on his right 
foot as soon as the left bothered him, but 
he seemed to be slightly stiff in all four 
feet. I took off his shoes, thinking they 
were probably pinching his feet, but as yet 
it has not relieved him any. although he 
does seem to be slightly improved in the 
stiffness. Do you think from this descrip¬ 
tion he could have or has had a touch of 
rheumatism, or what is it? w. o. t. 
New York. 
The symptoms certainly suggest lameness 
from rheumatism: but without making a 
personal examination we are unable to de¬ 
termine the seat of the trouble. It may be 
in the coffin joint or fetlock joint. If you 
cannot have an examination made by a 
qualified veterinarian and the horse “points” 
the foot of lame leg in front of body in 
standing at rest, clip the hair from the 
hoof-head and blister with cerate of can- 
tharldes. At time of attack give half an 
ounce of salicylate of soda twice daily. 
A. S. A. 
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