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American Agriculturist, September 6 , 1924 
Getting Started with Sheep 
Mark J. Smith Gives 
We would like some information about what kind of 
sheep would do the best here in northern New York. At 
present we have 70 head of stock in all and milk 50 to 55. 
Do you think sheep would pay here? What time of the 
year should we buy sheep and how many head of sheep 
would a 70-cow farm keep? We have 400 acres nearly all 
pasture and meadow.—D. W. J., Oneida County, N. Y. 
TT would appear to me that you are 
A ideally situated to profitably engage 
in sheep raising, providing, of course, that 
your land is not low and wet. Judging 
from your location, as shown on the map, 
I would expect most of your land to be 
upland. 
I believe that w T ell-cared-for sheep will 
pay larger returns, in your section, than 
any other type of livestock considering 
the amount of feed and labor required. 
Regarding the time of the year to buy, 
that, of course, depends upon conditions 
and opportunities. I like to buy sheep in 
the spring that are nearly wintered, that 
are to lamb, and that are yet in their 
fleeces—this is the same as buying three 
articles in one. Last year sheep I bought 
in this way stood me practically nothing 
after the lambs were sold. I bought the 
best flock of grade ewes in this section in 
April last for $16 a head. The price 
looked big at the time but the sale of wool 
and lambs per ewe for the season was 
$14.50. The first bunch mentioned had 
been shorn and cost $10.00 per head. I 
bought a deck of grade Delaine ew'es this 
spring that were unshorn and heavy with 
lamb in Washington County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Although not public property, I 
am going to tell you what they cost me— 
about $10.25 delivered here. I already 
have lambs from ten of them. I sold the 
$16 ewes, bought last spring, in October 
for $12.00. Locally such ewes as I bought 
in Pennsylvania are bringing $15.00. 
Advantages in Fall Buying 
There are advantages in buying sheep 
in the fall for most people. They can be 
bred as desired and when desired—usually 
more sheep are for sale in the fall. For 
most people the one best way to get a 
flock of sheep together is to save ewe 
lambs from their foundation ewes and 
raise them. Perhaps you can buy a few 
native ewes locally, buy a good ram and 
save the lambs. As to the number, that 
depends upon the man—in your case, 
knowing as you do how to take care of 
stock, perhaps about thirty would be a 
nice, practical flock for you to start with. 
The carrying capacity of land for sheep 
varies with the land. I have a 16-acre 
pasture that takes care of from 25 to 30 
sheep and their lambs a season. 
Best results are obtained when pastures 
are rotated—on two weeks and off two 
weeks. In the old country forage crops 
are raised and sheep hurdled, expensive 
Advice to a Beginner 
land is stocked with sheep four times as 
heavily as we do in this country—then 
when they plant a crop they get some¬ 
thing. This requires shepherding. Two 
great health preservers of sheep are: large 
range on the one hand and the use of the 
plow on the other, the former system is 
our Rocky Mountain range method. 
When you get your flock up to a 
hundred ewes you will be able to judge 
what you can do with regard to the 
•possible number. Most people succeed 
best with sheep when they start in a 
relatively small way and grow into the 
business as their experience increases. 
There is no type of breeding ewe that 
surpasses, for practical purposes, the 
half-blood Merino ewe—this is the type of 
sheep that most commercial flock owners 
are striving for. The Corriedale is 
practically that, only the type has been 
fixed by breeding operations in New 
Zealand over a long period of years. 
Constitution is first in importance in a 
sheep. Health precedes profit. Dorset- 
Merinos make good sheep. As your 
number increases the need for Merino 
blood to make them run together in large 
numbers and keep healthy, becomes more 
imperative. All Down breeds are good for 
their particular purpose. 
Veterinary Inquiries 
We have a cow that had a teat bitten off by a shoat. 
It healed all right but her udder has gathered and broken 
on that side ever since. Six months have passed since it 
happened. The milk from the other quarters seems to be 
all right but I have never used it. Can you tell me any¬ 
thing I can do for her?—W. S. B., New York. 
TT is most practical for you to have a 
good veterinarian come and examine 
the animal. There is no question but 
what a slight operation is necessary and 
it may be that it would be possible to 
regain the quarter again. The outbreak 
shows that pus is confined in that part of 
the udder and should have proper drain¬ 
age in order to overcome this condition. 
* * 4c 
Could you tell me how to cure one of my horses? We 
bought it last fall together with our farm, after it had been 
caught in a barb wire fence. But it did not look bad then. 
During the winter the owner never took care of the sore 
and in the spring when we took possession of the place, it 
had spread almost around the whole leg. It is just over 
the foot and full of proud flesh. If the horse works it does 
not seem to hurt much, but if be stands still he will bite on 
it until it is bleeding. 
W IRE cuts are usually very serious 
conditions to treat and often take 
a long time to heal. We would suggest 
that you have the following compounded 
at your local pharmacy: 1 pint raw 
linseed oil, 1 ounce potassium nitrate, 
1 ounce lead acetate, 1 ounce sulphuric 
acid, x /l ounce carbolic acid. Apply this 
to the cuts with a small brush or feather 
once or twice a day. 
FATTENING LAMBS IN THE CORNFIELD 
T HERE is no place where lambs will thrive better and do so little damage as in standing 
corn. They may be turned into the cornfield as soon as the roasting ear stage is 
passed and the corn has commenced to harden. 
They strip the seeds from the weeds, thereby destroying the seed, as weed seed picked 
by sheep never grow. They remove the lower blades from the corn, thus making it more 
easily harvested either by hand or by harvester. 
The lambs will not bother the ears as long as there is an abundence of weeds and corn 
blades within reach. When they have the rows well cleaned out they may be removed 
to other pastures. This method is practiced largely in some sections of the country, 
and has proved a very successful way of destroying the weeds and fattening the lambs. 
•—Lewis Dieffenbach, Pennsylvania. 
