608 SHEEP HORNLESS DARK-FACED SHORT-WOOLS 



April. Liberal feeding continues, but is varied by the 

 substitution of mangels, kale, rye, and clover seeds about 

 the middle of the month. The one-year-old rams for show 

 purposes are early shorn, and shearing the ewe flock may be 

 begun in the last week of April. 



May. The general shearing is completed early in the 



FIG. 46. FINE-POINTED NIPPERS FOR NOTCHING THE EARS OF LAMBS. 



month, and at the same time the unshorn lambs are dipped. 

 Each lamb is given one of Cooper's tablets, made of com- 

 pressed sulphur-arsenic dip material, as a precaution against 

 parasitic worms in the alimentary canal the lambs being 

 fasted over night, and for an hour afterwards. It may be 



FIG. 47. TATTOOING IRONS, CALLED A "TATTOOER." 



necessary to repeat the dose every month or six weeks until 

 November. 



June. The summer dipping of the whole flock is carried 

 out towards the end of June. The lambs are also weaned, 

 and the ewes placed on the worst pasture, as far from the 

 lambs as possible, until August, with little attention, in the 

 hope that they may lose excess of condition. 



