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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 11, 191!) 
Double Champion 33rd , 211796, Grand Champion Boar at the New York State Fair & Eastern 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Sheep on Long Island 
I have 20 acres of wild ground to clear 
and make into a farm. Would sheep do 
well if the bushes were cut off and a fence 
put around the ground, feeding the sheep 
some grass in the Summer and hay or 
cornstalks in Winter? Would they clear 
the ground and pay their way? IIow 
many sheep could I keep per acre? How 
much would it cost me to start in to 
keeping them? What kind of sheep would 
you advise, and what kind of fence? 
New York. L. A. T. 
The two problems that greatly discour¬ 
age sheep raising are, first, losses from 
dogs and predatory animals, and, second, 
the relatively high cost of fencing. True, 
breeding ewes are very high, grades sell¬ 
ing for about .$20 per head, but with wool 
and mutton at prevailing prices there is 
money in a small flock. 
On 20 acres of bush land I would start 
with 25 ewes. This makes a good unit to 
work with. It is assumed that the land 
is rough and well drained; also that the 
ground is not all shaded and that natural 
grasses are holding their own. Either 
about two tons dairy feed, 16 per cent 
protein. Would this be a good mixture, 
or what should be added? ir. M. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
1. Cocoanut oilmeal is not as palatable 
as digester tankage for swine; neither is 
the protein supplied as economical per 
unit of digestible nutrients. While the 
cost per ton is considerably less, it would 
be to your advantage to buy tankage 
rather than cocoanut meal, and with corn 
and oats forming the base of the ration. I 
would mix the feed in the following pro¬ 
portions: 500 lbs. corn, 200 lbs. ground 
oats, 70 lbs. digester tankage. While the 
oats are clearly the most expensive feed, 
it is important that young pigs that are 
to be developed to the weight of 400 lbs. 
should be given an opportunity to grow a 
big frame, and there is nothing that can 
compare with oats in this respect. After 
the pigs reach a weight of 150 lbs. the 
oats could be left out of the mixture, and 
if you expect to carry them on through 
this period of time they should have ac¬ 
Lunch Time for the Live Stock 
grade ewes of Shropshire, Hampshire, Ox¬ 
ford. Dorset or Southdown breeding will 
do well, if carefully selected and regularly 
culled. It will be necessary, however, to 
feed the ewes some grain in addition to 
the cornstalks. They cannot exist on 
fodder alone, although green, well-cured 
cornstalks are especially suited for sup¬ 
plying roughage for mature sheep. Equal 
parts of corn, oats and bran, supplemented 
with corn fodder or hay, would be well 
suited for a breeding flock. Two-hundred- 
pound ewes will require about one lb. of 
grain daily. 
As to fencing, woven wire is best 
adapted, and the 26-inch field fence is 
clearly the most economical. It will con¬ 
fine both the sheep and the lambs, which 
is quite important. If possible, the lot 
should be divided into two 10-acre areas, 
and the sheep changed every two weeks 
to insure luxuriant forage and good graz¬ 
ing. The lambs dropped ought to pay for 
the feed consumed, including pasture, and 
the lloece should be net profit. This ap¬ 
plies to a small flock, but docs not hold 
out with large droves. 
Feeding Young Pigs; Grain for Cows 
1. I have 10 young pigs about 10 weeks 
old; would like to keep them till Decem¬ 
ber. 1910, or January, 1920, and have 
them weigh from 300 to 400 lbs. llow 
' could this be done? I have corn, oats, can 
get cocoanut oilmeal. \N on Id this be a 
good mixture, and how mixed? I have 
no milk. 2. We have 12 cows, no silo ; 
good clover hay, corn fodder, corn on cob, 
oats; can grind grains. Have on hand 
cess to forage crops during the early 
Spring and Summer months. In this con¬ 
nection there is nothing more useful or 
less expensive to produce than Dwarf Es¬ 
sex rape. Six or eight pounds of seed is 
sufficient for one acre. The area can be 
pastured when the plants are eight or nine 
inches in height, and it is one of the 
most useful and palatable forage crops 
that can be grown. I would suggest that 
about one bushel of oats be seeded per 
acre with the rape,* which will add variety 
to the forage, and if the oats are allowed 
to head out and rattle off, they will re¬ 
seed themselves and produce a very excel¬ 
lent aftermath for late Fall feeding. 
2. With clover hay, ear corn, oats and 
dairy feed, one could mix up^i ration that 
would meet the demands of dairy cows 
of average production. I should prefer 
oilmeal or cottonseed meal to the dairy 
feed, and perhaps there would be an ad¬ 
vantage in securing some beet pulp to 
supply the succulence. Assuming that 
the cows are given all the clover hay that 
they will clean up twice daily, a useful 
grain ration from the ingredients at hand 
would result from the following mix¬ 
ture : Corn and col) meal. 500 lbs.; dairy 
feed, 500 lbs.; ground oats, 200 lbs.: cot¬ 
tonseed meal, 200 lbs. In case the beet 
pulp was added to this ration. I would 
feed each cow about 15 lbs. of the mois¬ 
tened beet pulp daily, which would re¬ 
quire the use of about 3 lbs. of the dried 
pulp. The cows should be fed in propor- 
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