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Carnegie and Sewickley. My practice has been for years to market 

 my lambs in Sewickley, the people of which do business in Pitts- 

 burg and do not care much for the price just so they get what they 

 want. 



MB. CAMPBELL Are you bothered with the parasites? 



MR. BURNS: Not to any considerable extent. We cultivate our 

 farm over in regular order, and we give our sheep diiferent pastures 

 as nearly as i)ossible, and in this way we think we overcome that 

 to a considerable extent, and our experience coincides with that 

 of others who have written on the subject. We do not keep our 

 lambs; only raise them to marketable age. 



MR. CAMPBELL: These parasites are one of the particular 

 points on this question. One of the worst things to contend with 

 in sheep husbandry is the internal parasites. They drove me out 

 of the business. It is very discouraging to go out in the morning 

 and pick up a lamb from 80 to 100 pounds in weight, killed by tape 

 worms. I had to do it. 



MR. BURNS: Have you ever lost any lambs by the tape worms 

 at two or three month of age? 



MR. CAMPBELL: Not so much as when at 00 or 80 pounds in 

 weight. 



MR. BURNS: We want to get rid of our lambs as quickly as 

 possible and therefore sell them as soon as they get the proper age 

 and weight, and so we have had no trouble in this direction. 



MR. COX: What breed of sheep did the gentleman have that he 

 lost so many lambs? 



MR. CAMPBELL: Shropshire. 



MR. COX: I think if he would introduce or mix the blood that 

 he probably would not have so much trouble. I know we have had 

 the thoroughbred Shropshire, and we found that this trouble was 

 greater with the thoroughbreds than with the grade sheep, and we 

 have introduced some fine blood into the sheep and lambs, and do 

 not have any trouble of that kind. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next topic will be: 



''General Fruit Growing — How to Take Care of Trees," by J. H. 

 Ledy, of Marion, Pa. 



Mr. Ledy presented his paper as follows: 



