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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
October 8, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
FODDER FOR SHEEP IN OHIO. 
In working a farm with pasture and 
ground for wheat, oats and corn, but no 
grass, what could I grow to give most pos¬ 
sible feed for the first year until I can get 
meadow started? IIow about oat hay, rye 
hay, or should I buy hay first year and 
raise more grain? Taking a plowed field 
in early Spring how can I get pasture for 
hogs the last part of Summer and Fall? 
With plenty of good sheep pasture, how 
would you advise a beginner to start with 
sheep and what breed, and when is best 
time to buy? I am much afraid of dogs 
n this locality. Would it pay to drive 
sheep into yard at night? L. c. h. 
Elyria, O. 
1 am inclined to believe that L. C. H. 
has no sheep but thinks strongly of get¬ 
ting some. He is asking for advice to 
know how to pull through one year with¬ 
out any hay from his own farm. I nat¬ 
urally suppose he has horses, cows and 
perhaps sheep to keep one Winter after 
Spring seeding. First it will depend 
upon how many mouths he will have to 
feed, and whether four or six months of 
the year, how much you will need, cer¬ 
tainly you ought to have hay. Perhaps 
it is possible for you to take a few 
acres of your neighbor’s grass to cut on 
shares. If that is out of the question, 
you ought to lay in some hay and by all 
means get well cured clover. You can 
raise two-thirds of the fodder you will 
need. The follo.wing is just what I 
should do on my own farm if I should 
be so unfortunate as to have no mea¬ 
dows : I should well fit a field or so 
according to my need, and sow to oats 
just as soon as possible in Spring for 
hay and seed it well to clover and Tim¬ 
othy. I would plant just as much corn 
as I could take good care of, and when 
ripe cut as soon as the corn is glazed, 
and you have a fine fodder for your 
cows and sheep. I would sow quite thick 
an acre or two of sowed corn. If you 
raise beans you will find that with the 
bean pods, oat hay, cornstalks, your oat 
straw and hay, your stock will winter 
well with a moderate allowance of oats 
and corn. For hog pasture sow rape; 
there is nothing better. The best time 
to buy sheep is now. Start with a few, 
get well acquainted with the different 
breeds. Select one breed that is most 
adapted for your locality and market. I 
would advise you to consider well the 
Oxfords, Hampshires and Dorsets. Yes, 
it will pay you to yard your sheep at 
night. CHAS. CRIDDLE. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 
With plenty of corn fodder, corn 
thickly drilled to cultivate one way and 
allowed to mature before harvesting, and 
bright oat straw, by feeding some grain 
one can get along without hay. A field 
planted to corn as early as safe from 
frost in the Spring and sowed to rape, 
turnips or even oats, or a strip of each, 
at the last cultivation would furnish 
good feed for hogs after the middle of 
August or first of September. Turn-them 
in as soon as the corn is glazed. The 
best lambs that I ever raised were from 
tine-wooled ewes and a registered Shrop¬ 
shire ram, but the ewe lambs kept for 
breeders did not give satisfaction. In 
this locality dogs attack sheep in the 
daytime as often as at night. I have 
been thinking of a dog-proof fence, but 
do not know that it would work. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. m. w. 
In a case of this sort I would try to 
get my roughage largely from the corn 
plant. There is no crop except Alfalfa 
that will produce as much feed per acre 
as will corn, and the way to get the 
most out of the corn crop is by way of 
the silo. If L. C. H. will plant a few 
acres to silage corn not too thick and 
just as it glazes over put it into a silo, 
he will be surprised at the amount of 
good succulent nutritious feed he will 
have, and the shortage of hay will never 
again be a perplexing problem. Oat hay 
and rye hay make a fair substitute for 
clover and Timothy, but it always 
seemed to me that these crops were 
worth more to let mature the grain than 
to cut green for hay. I would rather 
sow a few acres to millet for hay than 
either oats or rye. On good ground it 
will produce a large crop of fairly nu¬ 
tritious feed, and it has this advantage, 
it can be sown after the rush of Spring 
work is over, any time before midsum¬ 
mer. For hay it must not be allowed to 
ripen seed. Cut as soon as it heads out. 
A plowed field in early Spring sown to 
Red clover without a nurse (robber) 
crop will probably fill the bill for late 
Summer and Fall hog pasture as well 
as anything. It will probably pay to 
lime the field for the clover. 
F. L. ALLEN. 
It is quite an undertaking to engage 
in the handling of live stock on a worn- 
out farm, especially with little or no 
meadow for hay in sight. Nevertheless 
it can be done with a use of good judg¬ 
ment properly exercised. Oats sown 
early and cut while the straw is yet a 
little green will make both hay and 
grain. No other grain makes root so 
\vell as oats. I would feed it from the 
sheaf in racks with bands cut and the 
sheaves torn apart. 1 have found corn 
stover one of the very best feeds for 
roughage for sheep if shredded and 
carefully stored fed once each day. The 
refuse makes an excellent bedding when 
scattered over the stables. Sheep will 
eat considerable of the bright straw 
from wheat if it is liberally brined once 
a day. It might be a good plan to use 
some clover hay if you can purchase it 
at a paying price for feed. A portion of 
the time some corn grain will be neces¬ 
sary to furnish energy and heat for the 
sheep. It is rather difficult to secure 
pasture from Spring plowing very early 
in Summer. Rye seeded in the Fall and 
left growing till middle of May would 
assist greatly. Then plow again or disk, 
and Soy beans planted for September 
hogging would doubtless let L. C. H. out 
in pretty fair shape. Then finish out on 
corn. With plenty of pasture after April 
a beginner will find little trouble in 
starting with sheep and preparing to care 
for them through Winter in the manner 
above described. As for breed, that de¬ 
pends greatly on the fancy of the herds¬ 
man and his markets. As a rule the 
long-textured delaines : re the most 
profitable and successful in Ohio. The 
dog nuisance is the bugbear these days 
to sheep husbandry, and every farmer 
ought to help put a quietus on the nuis¬ 
ance by furnishing a short route transit for 
every cur that comes within eye’s reach, 
or if necessary to get a good view use 
a first-class “telescope sight” to make 
him look the size of grizzly bear and let 
fly. Yes, it doubtless will do well to 
yard sheep at night. We have prac¬ 
ticed it to some extent, but the sheep 
will not do so well in Summer as jf 
allowed the freedom of the pastures; yet 
if I wished to keep sheep I would care 
for them in a way that would protect 
them at all hazards. GEO. E. SCOTT. 
Jefferson Co., O. 
PLANS FOR A SLAUGHTER HOUSE. 
On page SS7 there was a request for 
information about building a slaughter 
house for the purpose of killing pigs in 
large numbers, and also a few beeves 
and calves. I have had some experience 
as a helper in killing pigs, and am some¬ 
what acquainted with the work and the 
equipment so I will give some idea of 
what I would do if I were going in the 
business for myself. The building should 
be built in the most simple and economi¬ 
cal manner. The floor should be of con¬ 
crete, sloping slightly from sides to cen¬ 
ter with a drain to carry off blood and 
water and insure cleanliness in general, 
and all four sides should be built of con¬ 
crete blocks or bricks, or even stones, for 
the height of four feet, and all the rest of 
the building of lumber to suit the owner. 
For the butchering of pigs I should ad¬ 
vise having farm boiler of 60-gallon size; 
build in a brick fire box and next to it 
have a table made of lj^-inch plank even 
with the boiler and large enough for a 
good-sized hog, and then have a tackle 
block and rope with a long wooden bar 
near it; after the hog is scraped when 
the hamstrings have been cut and the 
gambrel inserted then hoist the hog up 
and move him along the bar where it is 
handy for dressing, and room for an¬ 
other. Size will have to be considered 
according to the number to be killed at 
a time. Two sticking knives, one or 
two small knives for dressing and steel 
for sharpening the knives are required. 
For beeves and calves a windlass for 
hoisting should be placed in a convenient 
spot. After stunning the cattle and 
calves can be done the same; three skin¬ 
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