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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Raising Sheep in the Cornfield
THOSE who have handled ihoep on
the general farm know that these
animals e&n lire, grow and make
mutton and wool oo much waste herb
age that few other animals will eat
Sheep are well known to be the great
est weed and sprout exterminators in
existence. The sheep farm is almost
universally a clean farm. The caving
that a medium sired flock of sheep will
make every year in cleaning fence rows
and ridding fence lines and fields of
noxious weeds will practically, pay for
their keeping, especially when they are
given eredit for fertilizer scattered
Ter the farm to make the grasses and
other money crops grow better. Grassy
fence rows almost invariably follow
where sheep have trimmed the fence
tows of weeds and sprouts.
On every farm every year there is
waste green herbage that ean not be
utilized by eatUa, horses or hogs, owing
to other crops growing in the same
fields with the useless herbage. After
the last cultivation of corn, for in
stance, different kinds of Bummer
grasses and many kinds of weeds spring
up between the rows and around the
aides of the cornfields. The only coin
. mon way these weeds and summer
grasses ean be destroyed is with the
hoe, an expensive and laborious process.
If cattle, horses or hogs were turned
into the cornfield to eat the summer
grasses, they would totally destroy tho
corn, and no doubt in many eases in
jure themselves by overeating of the
new corn.
But sheep will effectively clean a
cornfield of summer grasses, and al
most, if not all, of the weeds, and they
will do it without injuring the stand
ing corn. There is nothing sheep like
better in the way of green forage than
young foxtail and crabgrass, or cow's
foot Other summer grasses they will
at readily, as well as almost all weeds
that grow in cornfields. Ragweeds are
their favorite. When turned into a
field of standing corn a few weeks
after the last cultivation of the crop,
about the time the corn begins to shoot
and tassel, they will go up and down
the rows nipping off the grass and
weeds as they come to them, scarcely
touching the blades of the standing
corn. Later, when they have cleaned
the field of weeds and grass, and the
fence rows around the field, they will
cat the lower blades of eorn, but they
will not injure the ear eorn nor the
upper part of the stalks in the least.
In doing this work of cleaning and
keeping clean the eornfield, they scat
ter manure of the best kind between
all the rows, which is one of the best
fertilizations the field ean receive.
On many farms, foxtail and crab
grass are serious pests to the soil. In
spite of care and elean cultivation they
come up, grow and reseed the land
every year. There seems to be no com
mon way of eradicating them. But
sheep will do it to a elean finish.
.YThere a flock of sheep is turned into
a cornfield shortly after the last cul
tivation, before any of the summer
grasses have blossomed and formed
leed, they will elean ont the grasses
and completely prevent seeding. Where
this system is followed on the summer-grass-infosted
farm, soon the farm will
dj cleaned of the grasses, as the plants
will be prevented from forming seed.
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Tho same is true of many of the nox
ious weeds. The sheep will eat them
off and keep them caton down, so
that weed seed formation is Impossible.
Where the eornfield is to be sown
to wheat, rye or timothy after the
corn in tho fall, it is an excellent plan
to pasture tho standing corn with sheep
a few weeks previous to eorn harvest.
Then, after the corn has been removed
from tho field, the surface will be
clean of foreign growth, the land will
be evenly manured and the field will
be in ideal condition for fall seeding by
simply discing and harrowing tho
ground. Harvesting the corn fodder
will be easier where no grass or weeds
bother, and where the corn is to be
husked from tho stalks in the field the
work will be easier for the same rea
son. In every ease where corn Is grown
for the grain only, to be hnsked in the
field from the standing stalks, it will
pay any farmer to pasture the corn
field in lato summer and early fall
with sheep. Cleaning the field of weeds
and grass and the stalks of tho lower
loaves will make husking of the corn
easier, while the fertilizer added to the
soil by the animals will be an impor
tant gain. Even wheTe tho eorn is to
bo cut and used for silage, tho loss of
a few of the lowest leaves of the corn
plants will make no appreciable dif
ference in the yield of silage. Some
pasture their cornfields with sheep in
Into summer evon whero the eorn is to
bo cut and shocked in the field and
the stover to bo used dry. Tho summer
grasses aro what the sheep will eat
first, and if there is enough other kinds
of feeds the sheep will not eat "many
corn loaves.
Many farmers now are buying and
foeding lambs during the late summer
and fall Beasons. Whero lamb3 are to
be fattened in the summer cornfield,
eowpeas are drilled with the eorn to
give the lambs a variety and more pro
tein in their field ration. Cowpeas in
the rows with tho corn grow up and
vine to the eorn. The two crops thrive
well together, tho corn making prac
tically as good crop with as without
tho peas, while the peas contribute
nitrogen to the soil. Some are willing
to invest in a ear load of lambs and
drill cowpeas in their corn to be pas
tured by the lambs simply for the ex
tra fertility added to the land. This is
claimed to be one of the cheapest and
best ways to fertilize any land, while
some direct money is usually made in
handling the lambs as market animals.
Where tho lambs are kept in the corn
field for many weeks in lato summer
and early fall, consuming the eowpeas
in the corn, other herbage in the field,
together with some concentrated sup
plements, a l:.rgo quantity of manure
will be distributed over the field. It is
an economical way of applying manure
to the land and it is a good way to
feed market lambs.
This summer by aecidont our flock
of sheep got into a eornfield whero a
large truck patch of beans, melons,
peppers, tomatoes and potatoes were on
one side. To our surprise, when the
sheep were found in this field they
had not injured the plants of tho truck
patch in the least, but were eating fox
tail and weeds only. W. F. 0.
Milking Kicking Cow
!N BRKAKING a heifor, or milking a
kicking eow, I never strike, or kick
her, or use any violence except to
milk her in spite of all she ean do to
prevent it. The principle is the same
made use of by John S. Barey, Gloa
son, and other noted horse trainers. In
single-handed contests, the animal is
made to exhaust its strength in a futile
endeavor to become master, and will
always yield when conquered by the
superior power and Intelligence of
man.
To break a kicking heifer with her
first calf, I put her into a stall and tio
her head up short to the manger, so
that sbo cannot back out, nor surge
ahead, and give her some dry meal to
cat in order to put her into an amiable
state of mind. But this will not pre
vent her from kicking if she don't
want to bo milked. I in not place the
pail directly under her bag. I put au
old cap on my head, stand on my feet,
bent over to milk, place my head in the
heifer's groin, and take a firm hold of
the hind teat on the heifer's right side,
with my left hand, and tho front fore
teat with my right. When sho tries to
kick, I brace my feet, and stiffen my
nock, and back, and hold on to the
teats with a bull dog'B grip. The left
hand is the one sho tries to get loose,
as it is tho one that prevents her from
hitting tho pail which seems to be her
particular object of spite. Standing on
my feet, I ean vary my position as she
varies hers, and if my hold is main
tained, sho can kick but little, and can
not hit me nor the pail. I do not try
to draw any milk whilo the struggle
lasts. I only tighten my grip and main
tain my hold.
The length of the strugglo depends
on the disposition of the heifor. Some,
more stubborn than others, will make
several fierce fights for the mastery
at the first milking, and repeat them
with less violence at the second. When
she finds that I am master of the situ
ation, and can "hold tho fort," that
I don't want to hurt her, that I do
want tho milk, and am determined to
have it whether she is willing or not,
sho gives up tho battle and thero is no
moro trouble. I havo never known a
heifer to injure her teats by my hold
ing on to them whilo sho was kicking.
Gentle old eows will sometimes kick
when they have cracked teats that
hurt when milked, and they must be
milked forcibly. Our best, and gentlest
cow cut one of her teats badly in gob
ting over a barbed wire fonco, where a
tree had been blown down across it. Ai
she was in full flow of milk the teat
had to be milked. It was very sore
and she would not allow it to be touch
ed, and when I took hold of it she
kicked furiously. I had to milk that
teat by force. She fought harder than
hoifcrs, but when she gave up, and al
lowed the teat to be squeezed, she
trembled and quivered with pain and
exhaustion. I never had a heifer, of
eow, that I could not milk by force,
and when broken they staid broken.
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