Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], May 15, 1951, Image 1

About Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993

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Farm Sheep Flocks
By LARRY GILL
ABOUT EVERY HOUR the wind came up sharply and a snow
squall blustered over. In between squalls the sun shone warmly. In
the kitchen a woman poured warm whole milk into clean 8-ounce
bottles and snapped nipples on them. In the. back yard a bunch of
bum" lambs waited with little patience for the bottles to be brought
to their improvised shelter.
And in a long, low shed whose walls were a high board fence and
a granary on two sides and piled up baled straw on the other two,
a half hundred ewes were separated into individual pens. In one
or two pens in a small "nursery" section of the shed, modern look
ing infra-red lights shown down on a weak lamb.
In small and large groups outside and under open sheds, more
lambs and their mothers milled around. The idea of running when
a stranger came into the pens was
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Left: Shed in back
ground illustrates what
can be done with little
time and expense.. High
permanent fence and a
granary form two sides
of the shed. Baled straw
forms the other two
sides. Part of the roof
is straw covered, part
with glass cloth which
admits sufficient light.
Shed is filled with in
dividual lambing jugs,
It is on the J. M. Starr
farm near pairview
where Starr is lambing
out several hundred
aged ewes.
Right: Axel Danielson.
F air view, holds up a
30 - pound. 30 - day - old
Hampshire ram lamb.
Jim Conner, left, and
Duane Vitt, Fair view,
■land oulside a conven
ed chicken house lamb
ing shed on the Vitt
farm. Conner is lamb
ing out some 600 ewes.
Few individual jugs are
noted on the front of
the chicken house and
on which the men are
leaning.
Left: Several large
sheep operators who
range in the Circle area
winter their breeding
flocks in the Lower
Yellowstone valley. This
late afternoon, blustery
April day picture is of
1,100 white laced ewes
owned by Kenneth
Cisna, Fairview. These
ewes lamb on the range
in May and illustrate
one of the good range
flocks in eastern Mon
tana.
Right: Lunch time. The
ewe is one of 600 being
lambed out on the Vitt
farm near Fairview by
Jim Conner. These ewes
run on dry land range
during the summer,
winter on beet tops in
the Lower Yellowstone
valley.
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