Great Falls Tribune

Points for Sheepmen.

The following is extracted from correspondence of the Farm Journal: One acre of turnips will equal ten of grass for sheep. Hurdle, or pull as wanted. Four bushels chopped to one hundred sheep is proper feed. If lambs are kept, wean at four months and put dams on short dry feed a few days to stop milk. Turn the lambs into second growth clover and give bran every morning. Grain the sheep lightly on pasture as soon as the milk is dry. Grain pays better then until winter than any other time. It is an essential. Clover pasture is best for sheep. To enrich pastures as you feed, give oil cake, peas, beans or bran. Three weeks before putting to the buck increase artificial food. Oats, oil-cake or cracked corn at the rate half a pound per ewe given at night will increase fecundity and produce better lambs. Yarding the sheep at night will also hasten this work. After taking the buck the feed should be such only as to keep it in good condition. The ram should be fed one pint of corn daily, during period of action, to get healthy lambs. The change to winter feed and to grain should be gradual. Allow them to run, if pasture permits until snow comes. Feed hay in the rack in the fall. After heavy frosts the pasture loses much nutriment and should be filled out by artificial food. Crushed corn, oats, beans or roots in small quantity make up the loss and prepare for winter treatment.