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may be erected in one corner of the barn and the ewe tied in this 

 stanchion so that she cannot injure her lamb. In the usual course 

 of events the mother will cease to fight her offspring and will usu- 

 ally in a day or two own her lamb without further difficulty. The 

 same method may be employed when a ewe has lost her lamb and it 

 is desired to transfer one of a pair of twins from its own parent 

 to the dead lamb's mother. Some of the old English shepherds 

 practice various methods for making such transfers, sometimes 

 successfully, but more often unsuccessfully. Some shepherds ad- 

 vise removing the skin from the dead lamb and tying it on the fos- 

 ter child. In some cases this simple method will cause the foster 

 mother to own a strange lamb in a short time. It is also recom- 

 mended that the milk from the foster mother be rubbed on the 

 fleece of the strange lamb ; however, this is not a very successful 

 method. 



FINISHING THE LAMB. 



In the long run it is far more profitable to finish the lambs on 

 the farm where they are raised than to sell them as feeder lambs 

 to be finished by others. The cost of finishing the lambs will be 

 greatly diminished if they are fed from birth to the time of sale. 

 This applies, whether they are sold early as hot-house lambs or 

 whether they are kept and sold in the early summer or in the fall. 



The cheapest gains are always made on young animals. The 



THESE TWIN HAMPSHIRE LAMBS WEIGHED 120 POUNDS AT 50 DAYS OLD. 

 Bred by the Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Missouri. 



