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The lambs have been provided with a separate place for eating their 

 grain, which is usually called a creep. This is simply an arrangement of 

 a little pen alongside the large pen, into which the lambs may go but the 

 ewes may not. Here the lambs have been provided with grain at all times. 

 At first it may be necessary to sprinkle a Httle sugar over the grain. The 



Fig. 40. — Dressing table, knife and backsets 



little lambs will soon learn to Hke it and those that learn to eat it first will 

 soon teach the others. It has been the practice to keep grain before the 

 Httle lambs at all times, yet to be careful that it is never fouled in any way. 

 Success depends on the little ones' eating well all the time and growing 

 fatter every minute of their short lives. 



The lambs usually grow rapidly enough to be ready for slaughter in 

 seventy to seventy-five days from birth. They should be made to grow 



