1905.] MONEY IN LAMBS. "JJ 



always put in the barn at night. We do not want to run the 

 risk of having Httle lambs born out in the snow bank. It is a 

 good deal better if the lambs can be born early, and if the 

 flock is well taken care of there is no reason why they will not 

 do as well. We do not find any more loss among them by 

 being born in cold weather, but it is because we look after them 

 carefully. Many and many a time I have gone with my wife to 

 look in the pens among the sheep to see if the little ones were 

 strong and all right, and if the ewes were all right. So bear 

 those two points in mind if you are going to raise lambs for 

 money. First, not to let your ewes get too fat, and, second, to 

 take the very best care of your flock, so that the little lambs will 

 always be born strong and well. 



Now, another point. When the lambs are born we just 

 simply make a little pen in the barn, that is made up of two 

 pieces hinged together, two panels like, like the two sides of a 

 gate ; we take that and put it up in some corner in the barn. 

 It is made just so that it opens and fits into the corner, the out- 

 side corner being hinged together at the ends. We take that 

 and put it up in some corner of the barn, and it makes a little 

 pen something like four feet square. Sometimes we use that 

 and put the ewe in it, particularly when it is necessary for her 

 to have careful attention. Then when the little lambs are born 

 we put them with the mother. We believe that that is an 

 important thing, and it is certainly a saving of expense. In 

 that way it makes it very easy. We do that for several rea- 

 sons. In the first place, an old ewe does not know her lamb 

 except by the odor, and the lamb only knows its mother by the 

 call. They have a good deal of individuality, and we think it 

 is a good policy to always shut them up a little while. Of 

 course, after the lamb is born the udder of the ewe will be full 

 of milk, or should be if the ewe is in good breeding condition. 

 An old ewe will always own her lamb if her udder is full of 

 milk, and that is one of the points that we are careful to look 

 out for. If she has not got plenty of milk she will not own her 

 lamb. We try to raise the lambs, or to give them a good start, 

 on their mother's milk. After a ewe has been parted from 

 her lamb we can still use them, and we try to encourage the 

 ewes to adopt other lambs, and so we keep them at work in that 

 way. We place them in a pen and put the lamb in with them 

 and try to make them own them, and as a usual thing they will 



