THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SUCCESS WITH WINTER LAMBS. 
When we hear of a neighborhood where 
some crop is being grown out of its sea¬ 
son and brings an unusual price, we 
think at once that some wonderful way 
of handling that crop has been discov¬ 
ered. We’ll go right at once, we think, 
and find out how to get rich in a hurry. 
When we arrive, we usually find that 
common sense, patience, good care and 
a lot of other rather distant acquaint¬ 
ances of ours have been on the job. There 
may be ways of getting rich in a hurry 
by manipulating inanimate things, but 
the man who thinks he can make a for¬ 
tune out of any line of farming without 
paying for it with hard work and much 
thought may as well quit the dream. 
Lately I visited a neighborhood in Ches¬ 
ter County, Pa., where a few farmers were 
making an unusual success with Win¬ 
ter lambs. One of them had 04 lambs 
dropped this Fall, and by the last of No¬ 
vember had sold 47 at .$10 apiece. The . 
remainder he expected to be rid of before 
Christmas. A tidy little sum to start the 
new year with, wasn’t it? And what’s 
more, he would not have to feed any 
grain all Winter, like the rest of us who 
right, the next proposition was to do the 
mixing at the right time. For Christmas 
lambs the ewes must be bred in April 
and May, before the hot Summer nights 
come. A curious fact was noted that a 
lot of lambs would be born say the last 
of September and no more until 10 days 
or two weeks later. Since a few days 
may mean dollars in the price of a 40- 
pound lamb, this is a point we need to 
know more about. Until some experi¬ 
ments can be accurately carried out along 
this line, and a temperature record kept, 
we will hardly know how important the 
weather conditions may be in stimulat¬ 
ing breeding. In practice, the ewes are 
in good flesh before the breeding season, 
but not too fat. They are then turned 
on scant pasture for a couple of days to 
get good and hungry. Toward evening 
they are given a light feed of shelled corn. 
Then the ram is turned with them. He 
needs also to be brought into prime con¬ 
dition by individual feeding. Oats and 
clover or Alfalfa hay are a good com¬ 
bination. The ram is handled in a num¬ 
ber of ways, lie is usually kept up dur¬ 
ing the day to be turned with the ewes 
at night. When possible two rams are 
kept to be used alternately. Often a 
young ram lamb is turned with the ewes 
before the older animal, and is kept in 
A NICE LITTLE RUNCII OF LAMB. 
have our lambs coming in the dead of 
Winter or early Spring. Why shouldn’t 
we do like him? What’s his secret? 
No secret at all! Anyone can do it— 
if they know how ! The best I can do is 
tell how those owes were fed, how they 
were bred, and one or two little things in 
their management that struck me. The 
country up about West Grove is some¬ 
what rolling, just what I would call a 
natural sheep country. Plenty of broad 
fertile pastures, good wafer, and handy 
transportation. The stock originally 
used was native sheep bred to Dorset 
rams. This provided splendid mothers 
and milkers, that bred early and made 
the very finest of mutton. No sheep 
when dressed, so one of my friends there 
stated, could equal a Dorset for the quan¬ 
tity and quality of lean meat. No other 
mutton equals it in money value. But 
in the artificial early lamb we want more 
of a roly-poly than we got with the Dor¬ 
set. Also, the Dorset does not always 
breed early enough. The early lamb peo¬ 
ple of West Grove began to look about 
for something to fill the bill. They found 
out about the Tunis sheep; heard they 
bred earlier and fattened easier, so they 
bought Tunis rams. They believed in 
good breeding, so they bought good ones; 
$25 for an animal was not too much to 
pay for insuring a crop that meant $500 
or more to each one. That was one 
point where they differ from many of our 
sheep growers. There is no economy in 
a cheap ram. This cross,’ the Tunis on 
Dorset ewes proved just what they 
wanted. The Dorset furnished the frame 
and size and milking qualities, the Tunis 
the early breeding and the roly-poly lamb. 
Now, they had their breed mixture 
the flock with him. One can only con¬ 
clude that the breeding practice is large¬ 
ly guesswork, and until we have made 
more careful study of breeding condi¬ 
tions we’ll have to try every expedient 
that may in any manner help. 
It is hardly worth while to mention 
that the ewes are kept in prime condi¬ 
tion during the months following breed¬ 
ing. The splendid clover pastures about 
Chatham and West Grove take care of 
that. How many ewes to the acre you 
ask? I asked that question too. I’ll 
give you the answer I got. Just as i 
many as will stay in good condition and 
not hurt the pasture. Being a sheep man 
myself, I knew that was the only answer 
that would fill the bill. All you can do 
is watch your ewes and see that they are 
doing well. Change pasture if they need 
it or give them a little extra feed if they 
seem likely to want it. Always have 
plenty of water on hand that is fit to 
drink. 
The ewes stay on pasturage until the 
lambs come, and in some cases f r some 
time afterward. The longer we can feed 
them that way the cheaper it will be, and 
our profits from the lamb greater. Also 
we can guarantee a real fat lamb. The 
only kind that pays is one that is born 
fat and does nothing but get fatter. A 
poor lamb is dead waste. Dressed it 
looks for all the world like a skinned 
cat, and is worth very little more. The 
lamb for this early Christmas market is 
straight hothouse goods. Like a hot- j 
house plant it must be carefully han¬ 
dled. It should have little or no exer¬ 
cise. It should never miss a meal. It 
should have cracked corn and bran as j 
soon as it will oat. Nothing should ex- I 
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More Work From 
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