626 MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP ON ARABLE LAND 



necessary to bring lambs that have been chilled into the 

 house, they should not be placed near a fire, because a 

 sudden change of temperature gives an injurious shock to the 

 nervous system, which may result in physical collapse, or 

 even in death. Cows' milk, given at blood heat, 98 R, 

 without water, should have in it a little gin, or sweet spirits 

 of nitre, to aid urination. Stricture of the neck of the 

 bladder, the result of exposure to cold, is most common in 

 male lambs, and is relieved by providing shelter, and gently 

 rubbing the belly with the hand while the lamb is held up by 

 the fore legs. Persistent cases are sometimes relieved, when 

 the lamb is valuable, by dipping his hind quarters in a bath 

 of warm water not over 1 10 F. The lamb must subsequently 

 be well dried and kept warm, to prevent a chill. 



A motherless lamb, while young, should be fed five or six 

 times a day, to prevent indigestion, accompanied by scour. 

 The giving of a little cows' milk to a lamb while it is sucking 

 its mother often induces diarrhoea or constipation, and in cold 

 weather results in the development of swelled and stiff joints. 



In " twinning on " a second lamb to a ewe which has 

 lost her lamb, the skin of the latter may be put on the 

 living lamb for a few hours to give it the smell with which 

 the ewe is familiar, and by which she is able to distinguish 

 her own lamb if she has been allowed to lick it. Should she 

 not have smelled or licked it, another lamb may be at once 

 substituted for the dead one without any further precaution 

 than that of rubbing its body over with the slime adhering 

 to the skin of the dead lamb. Whisky rubbed on the ewe's 

 nostrils and on the lamb soon after lambing, when the instinc- 

 tive fondness for the young is strongest, temporarily suspends 

 the ewe's power of scent sufficiently to deceive her. 



The Food of the Ewe. About the end of March or 

 beginning of April, ewes on arable land in the Midland 

 counties and South of England are removed from around 

 the ewe-pen, where, to encourage the flow of milk, they 

 have had sprouting white swedes, or late-sown grt en- 

 round turnips, which stand the winter well. The lambs 

 are allowed to run before the ewes, and thus to secure 

 the best of the young sprouts, by the hurdles being made 

 so that they can pass through while their mothers cannot. 



One acre (i 5-ton crop) is usually set aside per week 



