Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1873 — How to Feed Sheep Successfully. [ARTICLE]

How to Feed Sheep Successfully.

To bring a flock of sheep tn good condition, and to keep them therein, requires not only an abundance of good food, but something besides. -Regularity in the time of feeding 13 of the first importance. In handling flocks of Considerable. siii«t, we have found that, all things considered; two feedings a day'were the best. One need not be in haste to disturb the flock is the morning—say not before eight or nine o’clock, when they should have a good “square meal,” and again in the afternoon, In time to be well through before dark. Quiet is another essential to the comfort and thrift of the flock. We do not mean the absence of exercise, ■which is quite necessary, but freedom from worry in driving, and crowding while being housed or penned. When it is necessary for them to be moved, it should, if possible, be done without using a dog, and by the person or pfercons whom the sheep are accustomed to see. All movements wheh among or near m.CC? should be, as far as practicable, of such a character as not to startle or cause them to suddenly huddle together, as in. s o doing they jre almost ceriain to run over some oi their number that may be lying down. If we had to sum up the requisites to successful feeding in as few words as possible, these would be liberality, regularity and quiet.— 'Western, Rural. ■■