WHAT “SUNDOWNER” HEARS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 75, 12 March 1930, Page 10

WHAT “SUNDOWNER” HEARS

A turnip or swede .contains about 90 per cent, of water, and when we consider that a sheep has to consume from 28 lb. to 35 lb. or roots per day to be able to make it Progress. it means that the sheep has to take in and warm up to the temperature of its body some 24 to 3 gallons of water most of which it could do very well without.

The canvas strips used by sheepmen in parts of the United States for feeding sheep—instead of the usual troughs—are generally about 50 ft. long, but can be made in any length. They have eyelets and a rope in each end ? and can be staked down where desired. They have a thin iron rib every 19 ft., which keeps them spread out, and can be picked up and shaken whenever dirty. The cost of the strips is 6Jd a foot. A correspondent of “The National Wool Grower” claims that after three vears’ use his strips were as good as new.

Tests and observations carried out by officers attached to the United States Department of Agriculture indicate that libera] feeding of ewes just before and during the breeding season results in a larger percentage of twin births. Though the percentage of increase has varied in controlled flocks from year to year, the average over a definite period has been 16 more lambs per 100 ewes from flushed ewes than from ewes that did not receive extra feed.