Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — LIVE STOCK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIVE STOCK

CAM OF THE FLOCK. Animals Need Protection from Btormy Wet Weather. Sheep need little shelter except to keep off rain and snow. I have always allowed them to stay out In the coldest weather, If It was not stormy. However, I never, under any circumstances, allow them to take rains and snows in winter, writes a correspondent of Farm and Home. At this season I give good clover hay, and in addition a little silage or corn fodder about three times a week. I feed twice a day in the yard on the ground if it Is frozen, hut when«4ho ground is not frozen I feed in racks hi the sheep bam. I feed a little entire grain, mostly oats, to the breeding ewes. My troughs are made of three hoards, 8 feet long, the bottom one 10 Inches wide and the sides 6 Inches, as

shown in sketch. I scatter the oats thin In these troughs and the sheep cannot get a large mouthful. Thus bettor mastication of the grain is secured than In narrow troughs. I have fed threshed oats to my sheep for a good many years and have not as yet experienced any bad results from their use. I feed oats until after lambing time, then I add about one ear of shelled corn to one pint of oats per day. I know from my own experience that It pays to keep sheep, provided they are kept well, and those who do not do this are very likely to condemn the breed of sheep which they may happen to have or the breeding stock which they have purchased for the improvement of their flock when the fault is really their own.

Wall Sheep Trough.