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they can pass freely back and forth. Now, in addition to that, 

 let the little lambs have a lamb parlor, where they can go and 

 lie in the litter and sleep, and eat, and have a jolly good time. 

 They would rather be by themselves than to be with the large 

 flock. A little lamb, if well fed, does not have much of any 

 longing for its mother. A sheep, as a rule, is not capable of 

 affection. They are as cold as a snow drift. If a ewe has not 

 plenty of feed for a lamb she will not care much about the 

 lamb, and if that lamb is not hungry it will not care any more 

 about its own mother than it does about any other sheep. 

 Make that lamb parlor right off the place where the ewes nm. 

 Put up some boards dividing off a place, seeing to it that the 

 corners of the boards where the little fellows pass in and out 

 are rounded off. The place where they pass in should be just 

 wide enough so that they can get through and so that the 

 old sheep cannot go through. Then a part of the furniture of 

 that lamb parlor should be to have it so arranged as to have 

 plenty of good air, but without drafts. Then you must have 

 a place to feed them, and, first of all, you want a grain trough. 

 The grain trough should be made with the bottom about as 

 wide as that program. The bottom should be perfectly flat, 

 and you want the sides not to exceed two inches high, and 

 we need it long enough so that they can all eat without crowd- 

 ing. Then we want something else. You want a cover over 

 the trough to prevent their jumping in. On either end have 

 an upright standard, and from these standards directly over 

 the center of the trough, which is about the width of that 

 pamphlet, have a strip about one inch by three. That is to 

 keep the lambs from jumping up in there. When you feed the 

 lambs the natural inclination of them is to jump into the 

 trough. They are going to jump and huddle right in there, 

 but if you teach them that trick when they are young, they 

 will remember it and will soon cease to try to get into the 

 trough. I have seen them run and jump right into the feeding 

 trough, and when they do that, there is always danger of 

 spreading parasitic diseases in that way. Now in this trough 

 we want to feed them so as to produce the greatest, and most 

 rapid and most healthy growth possible. That means, to begin 

 with, that they should eat sugar, but we cannot afford to buy 

 it and we cannot afford not to. The digestion of a young lamb 

 is not strong. In fact it does not begin to get strong until 



