THE CARE OF SHEEP.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1692, 10 May 1883, Page 4

THE CARE OF SHEEP.

That was a mcieiful pio\ision -which gave to sheep the warmest in tui.il covering of all our domestic .mmiils. In the system of piomiseuous holding of live stock, uhieii pie Nails on nine out of ten fauns thioughout tlic country— or lack of system would be ikmm 1 ! 1 the maik — the ■« ild mannered sheep fares the woist of all the occupants of the yaid. The hoise is ghen the hot place— t -ome land of stall, with paiti.il piotection, at least. The neat cattle, by icason of their strength and belligerency, select and hold the best positions .it the foddei licks, and on the lee side of anything th.it wauls off chilling winds and diiving stoims. The swine nestle in the wannest coiners in the straw or nianute heap-, peihaps. The timid sheep h.i\ c to take up with wh.itever place is uno< eupied by others. But they tcel and MifFei fiom cold in common ■with all warm-blooded animals, and need •Hid will pay for aitifici.il pioteotion. The spiing and Minimer catarrhs, and running at the nose, am muc indications th.it they ha\e not bien ])iopeily kept. If no warmer (jit.utei^ can be secured, it will }>ay well to piowdc toi them a tight Y>o.ivi\o(\ fence, \\\t\\ \>o.m\b ov \)i\tteiis over tlie eiacks, and let it extend down into the piound, to shut out all di.ifta below. Fence this oil w ith an entianee small enough to keep out the lruger animals. Let the giound be diy enouuli, natuially or by diaaiiug, to give them always a comfortable place ior the feet. Pio\ide some kind of a", con ei ing again&t rains, even if but slantiny boards or poles o\e'rlaid with straw. J<l\ cry thing that sa\es sheep from cold and wot p.i) swell for the doing, in the better giowth, better futuie health, stiongei lambs, and in the saving of extia feed always requiicd to countei vet uniieecbsriy cold. A false idea is still pioNalent, among niauy farmers, that because sheep left to feed at an exposed .stack eat mote, they are doing better. The cxtia fodder Consumed is used up in lesistmg cold, and not in adding to their weight of ilesh.

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