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Ball-Bearing 
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Machine 
$19.2S 
Larger Wool Clip 
Government tests conducted at 
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that machine sheep shearing gets a 
larger clip each season than the 
best hand shearing. 
The only way to get all your wool 
crop, and in condition to bring top 
_prices, is to shear by 
machine. The extra 
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small flock will pay 
for machine the first 
season. 
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Power-operated equip¬ 
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Sheep Questions 
I am one of those farmers who have 
been encouraged by the reduction in dogs 
through increased tax. etc., to enter the 
sheep business. I bought 31 head last 
year, and have increased to 60 this year. 
They are now lambing, and as they are 
earlier than I expected, and I am a rather 
new hand with sheep, I am in great doubt 
as to whether I am proceeding correctly 
or not. I have been feeding clover hay 
and Soy bean and corn silage, six bushels 
a day of the latter to the 00 head. The 
sheepmen around here say that I should 
not feed silage to sheep with lambs, be¬ 
cause they say the lambs will get scours 
and die. Are they right or not? After 
my sheep lamb I give them clover hay 
and grain composed of two parts ground 
oats, one bran, one middlings and one 
part cornmcal. Is this a good ration? 
Last year I had several orphan lambs, 
and lost them all. One neighbor said to 
give them clear cow’s milk and to add a 
little cream; another to give just clear 
milk, and a third to give one-half water 
and one-half milk. This year I am giving 
one-third water and two-thirds milk and 
feeding about two tablespoons every 1 y<z 
hours. Am I right? My cow’s milk is 
not very rich. My lambs last year got 
scours and died. What caused this, and 
what will cheek it? n. g. n. 
Tf we follow the advice of shepherds 
who are most successful in rearing lambs 
and fitting sheep for either show or breed¬ 
ing purposes we will limit the amount 
of silage to be fed to two pounds per 
animal per day. It has been demonstrated 
that if more silage is fed to breeding ewes 
or to those nursing lambs scours and 
i other digestive disorders occur with both 
! the lambs and their mothers. It. would 
! be quite as appropriate to feed this 
amount of silage to the ewes nursing 
lambs as to the ewes about to lamb. The 
grain ration that you are feeding is well 
suited for breeding ewes, although I am 
inclined to believe that you would have 
even better results if you eliminated both 
the middlings and the eornmeal, feeding 
2 lbs. of ground oats to 1 lb. of bran and 
adding, say 30 per cent of oilmeal. Corn- 
meal is not conducive to milk production 
and i«s believed to prompt the ewes to 
lose their wool. 
Raising lambs by hand is not generally 
very profitable. Of course if the lamb to 
be raised is purebred one would be justi¬ 
fied in spending the time necessary for 
raising the youngster properly. It will 
be observed that when young lambs nurse 
their dams they take a small amount of 
milk, and this frequently. The one com¬ 
mon error among shepherds is to feed too 
much of the cow’s milk when it is sub¬ 
stituted for the mother’s milk. Butterfat 
tests show that the ewe’s milk is richer 
in butterfat than the cow’s milk; hence, 
in selecting a cow to provide milk for 
lambs that are to be hand fed. you should 
take one yielding rich milk. The milk 
from the same cow should be fed to the 
lamb each day. This practice ought to 
continue until the lambs are three or 
four weeks old. For the first few days 
and nights the lamb should be fed every 
two or three hours, and not more than 
two or three tablespoons of milk should 
; be given at a feeding; otherwise the 
stomach will be overloaded, indigestion 
will be introduced, scours will result and 
I he lamb will die. After the lamb is four 
or five days old the amount of milk can 
be gradually increased and the period 
between feedings gradually lengthened. It 
has been observed that the milk must not 
be boiled, else constipation will result 
from its use. Milk should be brought to 
a temperature of 00 degrees Fahrenheit, 
which is about the body temperature of 
the ewes. If care is exercised in keeping 
the nipple and the bottle clean it will be 
possible to rear a lamb by hand feeding 
as suggested. The addition of cream to 
the milk, if it is low in butterfat. would 
give you better results than the dilution 
with water. 
The real cause of scours among lambs 
is the curdling of milk in the stomach, 
caused by excessive amounts of milk, or 
the use of milk too rich in quality. Nat¬ 
urally when such conditions arise it is 
important that the curd in the stomach 
be dissolved and that tin 1 intestines lie re¬ 
lieved of the unhealthy matter. The fol¬ 
lowing remedy has been suggested by 
“Shepherd Boy”: Take one ounce of 
sulphate of magnesia, one-fourth ounce of 
cooking soda, just what ginger can be 
taken up on a dime; all to be mixed with 
a little flaxseed gruel and given to the 
animal in closes varying according to tbe 
size and age of the lamb. Four hours 
after giving the above dose administer 
four ounces of linseed oil. Oftentimes 
relief will result from the changing of 
the ewe’s diet, and the lamb should be 
denied large quantities of water. Clean 
utensils are the first essential, and it must 
be remembered that overfeeding a small 
lamb is a greater error than underfeeding 
him until he is accustomed to hand feed¬ 
ing. _ As soon as the lambs are old enough 
to nibble away at feed, and they will eat 
at a surprisingly early age, a mixture 
consisting of two parts of bran, one part 
of oats, one part of eornmeal and a half 
a pound of oilmeal will give you the best 
results. Let them have access lo all of 
the clover hay that they will relish. 
Second cutting Alfalfa or clover is by all 
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