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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 10If* 
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Sheep Notes 
A Woman’s Flock of Sheep 
lu the Winter of lf>18 I said to my 
boys I would like to have a few sheep for 
the lawn ; it is so large and so much work 
to keep it mowed in the Summer some¬ 
times. The last of February my sou was 
in town when a sale occurred and bought 
them for $15 per head. The next day he 
drove them home through quite a deep 
snow. There were 11* ewes and a ram. 
The owes had white faces and feet and 
legs : I don’t know what breed they were. 
The ram was a registered Horned Dorset. 
I liked them ; they were fine wooled and 
large and young. 
John said: ‘‘Here they are, mother; it 
is up to you to feed them.” I fed them 
corn and oats morning and night, gave 
them hay and cornstalks, all they would 
eat. By the first of April they had 20 
lambs. I lost one owe; she got hurt, so 
I had 18 ewes and 20 lambs. When the 
grass on the lawn was large enough to 
turn them out we put a fence around the 
rose garden. They ran on the lawn till 
Summer. I sold the lambs for $203 and 
the wool for .$107. 
The first of September I turned them 
in the meadow. The boys did not ap¬ 
prove of that, as they had so many regis¬ 
tered cows. They said they did not like 
to eat after sheep. In the Fall my sou 
the weeds, while the Ilamps and Shrops 
will lie down a long while before the 
Cheviot does. 
“Sheep should never have gone out of 
our business in this country ; there never 
was a time when they would not have 
paid. If you have a dozen ewes take 
good care of them. 
“Now nobody in this world can keep 
sheep unless they grow better themselves. 
They have to learn patience in tin* first 
place: they have to learn to do the square 
thing, and show tenderness and mercy. 
No man ever kept sheep who had murder 
iu his heart.” 
But we have been taught that Abel was 
the gardener while Cain was the herds¬ 
man—probably keeping sheep. Possibly 
dogs in his flock stirred him to evil. In 
any event this is what they tell about Mr. 
Kendall’s plan : 
Mr. Kendall orders a large number of 
sheep let out in a 10-acre field, and in 
a moment they scatter in all directions. 
He then calls Scotta and his young part¬ 
ner. Chub, and says in a low voice: 
“Scotta. I think you had better round up 
the sheep.” 
In an instant the dogs are away like 
a whirlwind. In a wide circle they sweep 
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was in Newark market and bought me 
enough ewes to make 50. They were 
black-faces, not as large as the others. 
I They ran in the different fields till Christ¬ 
mas. I always put them on the lawn 
every uight. as I was afraid of dogs. An 
| old gentleman came to spend the Winter 
with us. He made three nice racks to 
feed them in. I turned the feeding over to 
him. as there were more than I could 
manage. Their Winter quarters were an 
open shed and yard in front, and closed 
barn. There was a large iron trough with 
running water in the yard. 
One uight about 12 o'clock I heard dogs 
barking. I got up quickly and told Jim 
the dogs were in the sheep. He took the 
gun and went to the barn. He shot iu 
the yard and three dogs came out under 
the gate. He tried to shoot, but the gun 
would not go off, so they all got away. 
They had one sheep down, but had not 
killed any. After that we put them in 
rhe closed burn every night. 1 have 50 
lambs; they are very tine, nearly all ready 
for market. The boys have 'the ewes 
clipped : the wool is fine. They are fat, 
readv for the market. But I do not like to 
have them killed ; they are too fine for keep¬ 
ing over another year. One was lame ; we 
put her iu a small house with a wire 
door. She had a fine lamb. One day I 
heard a dog barking there. 1 sent the boy 
out with the gun : it weut off and there 
was a dead dog. I am sending a picture 
of just a few of them, taken on the lawn. 
I have sold most of them now. M. C. ii. 
New Jersey- 
New Sheep Talk 
Mr. W. B. Kendall of Maine lias some 
original ideas about sheep, which art* 
brought out in a recent newspaper inter¬ 
view. For example, this classification of 
sheep iu the animal kingdom: 
“What the strawberry is to the vege¬ 
table world the sheep is to the animal 
world. As the Frenchman said. ‘Doubt¬ 
less God might have made a better prod¬ 
uct. but doubtless He never did.’ 
“All they ueed—both the strawberry 
und the sheep—is cultivation. But the 
sheep is the greater aristocrat of the two 
because he has come down from Abra¬ 
ham’s time and before. The first occupa¬ 
tion known iu the world is the keeping of 
sheep. 
"There are different types of sheep. 
The Cheviot is like the old-fashioned 
woman. 8he is so ambitious that she 
1 will get up early in the morning, clipping 
around tin* field, while the sheep begin to 
run toward the center. With each turn 
the sin*)*]i come nearer together as the 
dogs close in. 
In less than three minutes’ time the 
sheep are packed in n close bunch, with 
heads turned outward. The dogs now 
take their stand, and if a sheep ventures 
to leave the bunch she is quickly nipped 
in the leg by one of them and is glad 
enough to retreat into place. 
"No dog.” explains Mr. Kendall, "will 
attack a sheep that remains motionless. 
The average flock of sheep at once starts 
to run when a strange dog appears. When 
the sheep stop and form a bunch the dog 
slinks away. My sheep are trained as 
well as my dogs. They never run from a 
strange dog, but immediately ‘bunch.’ I 
haven’t lost a single sheep by dogs in the 
past two years.” 
This is why Mr. Kendall’s luck still 
holds good : 
"Nearly every family around here has 
a telephone,, and if a strange dog gets 
among my sheep 1 am usually notified. 
We have one auto with a loaded gun and 
a spade for grave digging. That dog is 
usually cared for before he can catch a 
running sheep. I have settled the dog 
danger with these Collies. They train my 
sheep to ‘bunch,’ and that is the secret of 
my success.” 
Staggers 
We have a horse singularly affected 
when at work. He stands up. shakes his 
head and acts as though hi* suffers with 
pain in his head, throws his right car 
down, is worse when perspiring; some¬ 
times once a day, other days ofteuer; it 
even acts in this way when in stable. 
Fan you tell us what is the matter with 
him? m. w. w. 
Virginia. 
See that the collar fits properly and 
that the bridle does not hurt iu any way. 
Far ticks may cause such symptoms. 
They are common .ip Texas, but we do 
not know if they are prevalent in your 
district. Stomach staggers, induced by 
overfeeding and lack of exercise, causes 
similar symptoms, just after starting 
work, but the horse usually falls, ns it 
also does iu epilepsy. 
Gf.okge came crying to his mamma. 
“I’ve broken pussy's saucer,” In* whim¬ 
pered. "Never mind, darling,” said mam¬ 
ma. “we can get pussy another. How did 
you do it?” “I was hammering it with 
daddy’s watch.” — Melbourne Australa¬ 
sian. 
