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BREEDING EWES FOR WINTER IAMBS. 
A I >VICK FROM EXPERIENCE.— 
1\ Now that the profitable season for 
Marketing Winter lambs is well over, the 
grower will be turning his attention to 
getting his flock in shape for early breed¬ 
ing. No better advice in the handling of 
the flock at this time could be given than 
that which was included on this subject 
in a practical talk by Mr. T. Roy Brookes 
of Harford County before the Short 
Course students of the Maryland Agricul¬ 
tural College recently. Mr. Brookes has 
been supplying Winter lambs to the mar¬ 
kets of New York and Washington for 
ihe last 10 years, having averaged as 
high as $15 apiece for his lambs at eight 
weeks old in the early days of the busi¬ 
ness. This season past has been rather 
depressing, owing to conditions abroad 
and a general weakening of the demand 
for high-priced, fancy meat such as the 
Winter lamb grower aims to supply. 
There is, however, no cause for being dis¬ 
couraged about entering the Winter lamb 
business with a fair expectation of profit 
in return for the extra labor and pre¬ 
cautions it demands. 
Milking Ewes.— After removing the 
lamb from the mother ewe, she should be 
milked out for a few days until the flow 
decreases considerably. Mr. Brookes 
formerly milked the ewe directly onto 
the ground, but finding that his Dorsets 
averaged close to a quart of milk apiece 
a day, and that he had as many as 10 
ewes at a time from which the lambs had 
been taken, he began to save their milk 
and feed it. to the hogs while their flow 
lasted, a matter of nine or 10 quarts a 
day of milk that tested over 10 per cent 
at the local creamery—just the stuff for 
making fancy pork. 
Feeding And Shearing. —The ewes 
from which the lambs have been removed 
should be allowed to exercise freely on 
a fairly large lot near their shelter, with 
a good maintenance ration of sound hay 
and plenty of fresh water. They want to 
lie in prime condition when the early 
pasture is ready for them about May first 
To insure this, they should be sheared 
early, about the middle of April, depend¬ 
ing on the season. Ewes cannot he ex¬ 
pected to get into first-class condition for 
breeding if they have a heavy fleece to 
carry all Winter and into the hot days 
of May. A little care in protecting them 
from exposure to cold rains or drafts for 
the first two or three weeks after shear¬ 
ing will avoid any serious setbacks. 
Full I’astubk.— Before they are ready 
to breed, it is a good practice to flush the 
ewes. This can be done in either of two 
ways, by feeding them a heavy ration or 
turning them on full pasture in May after 
they have been for the early part of 
the Spring on bare lots and hay feed. 
This change in feeding seems to star! 
their improvement in condition very 
swiftly, and tends to bring them into 
breeding condition with considerable uni¬ 
formity. This is very desirable, since the 
time for the most profitable marketing ol 
the Winter lamb is from Dec. 20 to Feb. 
1. As it takes five months for the lamb 
to develop after the ewe is bred, and two 
months more to finish the animal for 
market, it makes it very desirable that 
the ewes breed around the last of May 
rind the first of June. 
Breeding. —Mr. Brookes generally 
turns his ram with the ewes about May 
25, leaving him with them until August. 
Any ewes bred after that cannot finish 
their lambs for market before February, 
and he considers it a better practice to 
carry them over a season without breed¬ 
ing than to feed at a loss during the lat¬ 
ter part of the Winter. Last year prac¬ 
tically his entire crop of 50 lambs with 
five exceptions were dropped from the 
first to the tenth of November, and when 
he gave his talk before the Short Course 
in the middle of February he had dis¬ 
posed of all his lambs at a contract price 
of $9 a head. In this connection, ho cau¬ 
tioned against the over use of the ram, 
particularly a young animal. Where the 
ram had been kept in prime condition he 
could be reckoned on to breed with a 
Hock of 50 ewes in good condition. 
Summer Pasture. —Following breed¬ 
ing. he keeps his ewes on pasture all 
Summer, changing them from one small 
lot to another frequently. For this pur¬ 
pose he uses the lawn of four acres about 
his house, which supplies about half the 
pasture land needed for his ewes at this 
time, and which without she*p would 
still be filled with weeds and sedge, as it 
was some years ago before he began to 
pasture it. No small shrubbery, of 
course, can be set out in such a lawn un¬ 
less wired against the sheep. No grain 
is fed the ewes until about a week or 
10 days before lambing, when the feeding 
of some bran or oats will help strengthen 
the ewe and start her in heavy milk flow. 
The beauty of the early Winter lamb, 
however, is that in Maryland at least the 
ewe can be fattened on Summer pastur¬ 
age and in the Fall on some such cover 
crop as rye, wheat, oats, or Crimson clo¬ 
ver, and the only grain feed required is for 
the two months after the lamb is dropped. 
By having the lambs at this time they 
are not affected by the stomach worm, 
since the lamb does not go on pasture 
from the time it is born until it is mark¬ 
eted, and again if grown for breeding 
stock is by the time it is turned on 
Spring pasturage too old for the stomach 
worm to be fatal to it. R. hrigiiam. 
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have attended State fairs, also called on 
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dairy breeds, having in mind the inten¬ 
tion of adding some purebred animals to 
our small dairy, but being undecided on 
which breed to select, I did not buy un¬ 
til four years ago. I then called on sev¬ 
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trio of Brown Swiss (my own selection). 
Since then I have added to my small herd. 
I find that the Brown Swiss rank high 
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