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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 8,. 
FALL CARE OF SHEEP. 
Up in our country every Fall we have 
a lot of sales. These are mostly held by 
people who are moving away or giving 
up their farming to tenants, but every 
once in awhile we have some wise man 
who has a clearing-up sale of old stuff, 
with just enough good things included to 
pull the affair off. As a result he gets 
rid of all the old trash that he has ac¬ 
cumulated for years, and gets a little 
ready cash to help him along. Better 
still, he starts new with tools and stock 
in good condition. The idea is a sound 
one when applied to any branch of farm 
business. It does not pay to keep any¬ 
thing on hand that is not doing good 
work or producing a good grade of stuff. 
This Fall let us have a good house-clean¬ 
ing, at least in the sheep department. 
Don’t do the way so many Fall house- 
cleaners do—pull out all the old useless 
stuff, dust it, and put it back again. A 
house-cleaning was not meant just to 
get rid of dust. It was meant for get¬ 
ting rid of worn-out things. So when it 
comes to taking stock of your bunch of 
sheep, do it thoroughly. Make up your 
mind to get rid of every one that you 
cannot keep through this Winter at a 
profit. Clean out the ragged ends of your 
flock. 
First, look out for the old ewes. See 
that their teeth are sound. Figure on 
able ewe, and that is money saved right 
from the start. If you do keep any you 
are no better off than a friend of mine 
who had occasion to sell his place and 
move half across the continent to a new 
home. Among other things he had to sell 
was the family horse, that was perfectly 
safe when driven by either his wife or 
children. Of course it was worth a good 
bit more to my friend on that account. 
At about the time of his sale horses like 
it were selling at $160 to $170. The best 
offer he had for it was $120. Did he 
•sell? No, indeed! When he went off 
to his new home, he left his horse as a 
boarder for $6 a month and its use. How 
long do you suppose it took that horse 
to eat up the di(Terence between what he 
was worth and what was offered for him? 
Why, about five or six months, to say 
nothing of running the chance of losing 
her when she foaled in the Spring. The 
man who keeps an old ewe over because 
he cannot get a few more cents for her 
than he is offered is just about as wise 
as my friend. He has not even the ex¬ 
cuse of a good animal to back him. His 
ewe is worn out and never will be worth 
any more. He knows, or he ought to 
know, that the loss from keeping that 
ewe will just about offset the profit from 
two that are in prime condition. 
While you are getting rid of the old 
ewes, make a thorough job of it and get 
rid of any others that are not paying 
A CALL FOR DINNER. Fig. 46S. 
whether they will keep fit through an¬ 
other lambing season. If you raised them 
so much the better, then you can make 
sure that every ewe six years old has to 
be in mighty good shape to be worth keep¬ 
ing. Look up your record and see 
whether or not she fed her last lamb well. 
If her teeth are getting poor, she is 
probably in about as good condition as she 
ever will be for selling now that the 
Summer pasture is nearly gone. So take 
her and any more you have like her 
away from the rest of the flock, see that 
she gets hay fine enough for her to chew, 
and feed some cornmeal or oil cake to 
finish her off with. Then sell her. Other¬ 
wise she may go into the Winter in fair 
shape, but after a month of dry grain 
and hay she will begin to get thin. Later 
her wool will get rough and commence 
to peel, and finally when her lamb comes 
it will be a poor little thing, starved for 
weeks before it was born. Often the 
mother will refuse to own such a lamb, 
since she has neither milk nor the 
strength to suckle it. Again the lamb 
may be born pretty fair in size and shape. 
The mother, however, has robbed herself 
of every bit of nutriment and vitality she 
has to turn out a strong lamb. But 
what good has it done? None at all. 
She may be able to feed it well for a 
couple of weeks; then she will go all to 
pieces and the lamb is starved and 
stunted. It is one of the bitterest dis¬ 
appointments of the business to see a 
promising lamb like that make a splendid 
start, and then drop back and stay just 
thin enough and small enough never to 
catch up with market requirements, no 
matter what you may do. 
So get rid of your failing ewes with¬ 
out too much delay. If you cannot get 
much for them be thankful just the same. 
You are not going to winter an unprofit- 
their way. Some of the younger ones 
have proven indifferent mothers and milk¬ 
ers, or do not put on flesh easily, or seem 
to lack vitality. Put them in with the 
old ewes and get rid of them at a good 
price if you can, at any price if you 
have to. Don’t leave any “weeds” in 
your flock. Better have it half its pres- ; 
ent size and all of them sound. Also 
you may have a few late lambs that 
did not grow as fast as you expected. 
Take them away from the rest of the 
flock, feed them as well as you can. Use 
your short corn for them. Your short 
corn is not going to keep any too well, 
neither is your “short” lamb. Get rid 
of them both at the same time. ' You 
have enough mouths to feed without 
throwing good grain to poor lambs or un¬ 
profitable ewes. R. B. 
Maryland. 
Horse Attacking Cow. 
One of my neighbors, Edward Wills, 
Hauppauge, can go the general public 
one better, and win. A cow belonging 
to him, running in the barnyard, put her 
head through a window in the horse stall 
and tried to get the hay which the horse 
was feeding on, when the horse made a 
dive for the cow, catching her by the 
tongue, biting off three inches of it. A 
veterinary being called said nothing could 
be done, so the cow was killed. Can our 
readers beat this? F. E. Nichols. 
Long Island. 
We doubt it. Probably the horse did 
not intend to damage the cow so severely. 
We have had horses kick at the cattle or 
each other, but this case is out of the 
ordinary. 
“Wiiat got Tippler behind the bars?” 
“Standing too long in front of them.”— 
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