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three fold more. Good sheep liusbandrv consists in a great 

 measure in doing the right work at the riglit time. Thus, 

 if we shear sheep, do it in season ; do. not let them wear their 

 fleece a month after it has become burdensome to them. 

 June is one of the best months in the year for sheep to 

 thrive if they are shorn. It costs less to house a flock of 

 sheep that are just shorn before a storm than it does to cart 

 them to the barn when they are benumbed and chilled. It 

 costs less to mend the fence before the sheep get in the 

 habit of l)eing unruly, as we call it. It costs less to cut 

 and cure the hay in season and when the sun shines than it 

 does to do it out of season and in rainy weather. If from 

 any cause the hay is poor, it costs less to feed some grain 

 in season than it does to let them lose flesh and get poor, 

 and then spend our time in doctoring them. I think there 

 is a proverb, which is, that good food is cheaper than doc- 

 tors. Without piu'suing this subject farther, I repeat that 

 good sheep husbandry costs less than poor and pays three 



fold better. 



Cake of Sheep During the Summer Months. — A flock 



of sheep require but little care during the summer months 

 except that they have a plenty of good feed and salt, and 

 are seen to that none of them are sick or diseased. The 

 principal work to be done in this season is to raise a suita- 

 ble quantity of roots, &c., and cut in the proper season and 

 well cui-e and store the necessary supply of hay and grain. 

 Roots, apples and pumpkins are necessary to some extent 

 for the sheep in the winter, not only on account of the 

 nourishment which they contain, l»ut to supply the lack of 

 green feed and to keep the sheep in a healthy condition. 



