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so avoiding all further trouble for the season in that line. Change ot 

 pasture field monthly or oftener if possible, with salt and water constantly 

 in reach, is about all the attention required till weaning time. Then a 

 fresh grass field and rape for the lambs and bare pasture for the ewes 

 with several milkings daily for the first and the second or third day 

 afterwards, are the requirements. 



We know ot nothing that will produce such growth, bloom and 

 fulness of flesh in a bunch of lambs as a supply of well matured rape will 

 during the fall and early winter months. Lambs so fed require but eas> 

 feeding in the winter quarters to carry them on for the Christmas market 

 or to a still better market, that of late winter or early spring. 



Give daily, in pens, a feed of unthreshed pease in the morning (that 

 were cut when hardly ripe), four pounds to each of cut turnips at noon, 

 clover hay in the evening, and five pounds cut turnips at night, and a 

 steady growth will be maintained. The water and salt must always be 

 in the pens. Then all going well, a handsome advance in value may be 

 counted on, and the net profits doubled or more. 



There is no danger of any person getting into trouble in predicting 

 that from now on the sheep is to be returned to its proper place on the 

 farms in Ontario. And why not, when it makes by far more money out 

 of the grass and the weeds and the seeds, the roots, the grains, the hay 

 and anything else fed to it than any other kind of animal we raise, and 

 it does that without our needing to milk or grind for them? All that is 

 required is to give the feed as it comes from the field, only that turnips 

 had better be cut. Does that not tell, and tell materially, when the labor 

 saved is considered, how we can farm, farm well, and cut down expensive 

 labor bills? 



