200 LIVE STOCK MANAGEMENT. 



This is one of the cleanest and most effective methods that 

 we have ever practiced. 



Where it is desirable to force the lambs for market, they 

 should be taught to eat grain at an early age. For this pur- 

 pose a lamb creep should be provided which may be made 

 by partitioning off a small corner, leaving an entrance large 

 enough for the lamb but too small for the mother to enter. 

 In this should be small feed troughs or boxes in which a 

 little cracked corn or oat meal, which may be obtained by 

 screening the hulls out of ground oats, should be placed. 

 This will be eaten readily by the youngsters and will aid 

 very much in their development. This grain feeding can 

 be done to advantage even when the grass is good. Lambs 

 so fed will always thrive much better than those not fed 

 any grain. 



In the spring of the year about ten days after the mothers 

 have been shorn the lambs should be dipped to free them 

 from the ticks which left the mothers and came to the lambs. 

 Any of the manufactured dips, such as Zenoleum and Chloro- 

 Napholeum or Creolin, will give very good satisfaction. 



They should be weaned from the mothers when from four 

 and a half to five months old. They should then be given 

 the run of a good pasture. Where rape can be had, it makes 

 a most valuable adjunct at this season of the year. Some 

 grain should be fed in addition. The lambs should be divided 

 into two, and where pure bred stock are kept into three lots. 

 All those intended for market purposes should be put in one 

 lot, the ewe lambs intended for breeding purposes in another, 

 and the ram lambs in a third. The grain rations will vary 

 with the needs of the animals. Those which are to be fat- 

 tened should receive a ration composed of corn with a small 

 amount of either bran or oats in addition. Those intended 

 for breeding purposes should be fed a ration conducive to 

 growth, such as oats and bran. Some oil meal and wheat 

 can oftentimes be fed to good advantage. 



The market lambs should be fat and marketed when they 

 will average about eighty pounds. Heavier lambs are dis- 

 criminated against on all of our leading markets. 



