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that the old ewes cannot follow. That, of course, gives us a 

 chance to separate the little fellows from the ewes, and to feed 

 them separately. In these little pens we put a flat-bottom 

 trough with a board over it, so that the lambs cannot get in, 

 you know. In that trough we put ground feed at first. I do 

 not care very much what you put in, wheat bran with a little 

 linseed meal with it, or a little cracked corn, or even some wheat 

 middlintrs. I do not like that so well because it is too flourv. 

 Wheat bran and a little cracked corn, with parts of linseed 

 meal, is what I use most. They will not eat it for ten days or 

 two weeks unless you educate them a little. If you are careful 

 to train the little fellows to eat, and if you accustom them to 

 being handled, there is no trouble to hold them up, and pretty 

 soon they will Hke it ; they will not object to that, and then you 

 can take a little of this stuff in your hand and put it in the little 

 fellow's mouth. Put your hand up to his mouth and may be 

 all at once he will find out it is good and commence to eat. 

 Then give him some more, and some to some of the others to 

 eat, and pretty soon they will all follow that example. It is 

 surprising to see how quickly they will do it sometimes. I 

 have often used a little coarse brown sugar in order to encour- 

 age them to eat a little quicker than they otherwise would. 

 After they get to going then give them all you can possibly 

 get them to eat. That doesn't mean that you can put it in in 

 great quantities and leave it there all the time. That is not the 

 way to get them to eat, because if they go there and find the 

 feed always there they simply nose it over and somehow or 

 other it becomes distasteful to them,, and they do not take so 

 much of it. They wall not eat so much. I do not know 

 whether these boys here before me know how to keep in a 

 girl's good graces. There is a little lesson in this, so let me tell 

 it. When you go to see a girl, if you leave just five minutes 

 before she wants to have you go, the next time you go to see 

 her she will say when she sees you coming, " There is that fel- 

 low coming again. I am glad to see him, because he never 

 stays too long." If you stay just five minutes longer than she 

 wants to have you, then what does she say? Why, she sees 

 YOU coming, and she says, " There is that fellow coming again 

 that bored me so the last time he was here." That applies to 

 lambs also. If they have a little bit less than what they want 

 to eat they will come back with a big relish the next time. For 



