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good time to shear the flock, in warm climates it is often well to 

 shear again in late August. This couble shearing does not make 

 much more wool, perhaps no more at all but it is a relief to the over- 

 burdened sheep. 



MARKIN'i 



The English method of marking by branding figures in the horn 

 is a good one but slow and necessarily the horn must first grow so 

 that some means of marking the lambs must be adopted. Ear labels 

 of various sorts are on the market and all are open to the objection 

 that they lose out. Some breeders use the tattoo mark with suc- 

 cess though others fail in using it The secret of success with the 

 tattoo mark is, first, see that the jaws are exactly parallel. They 

 may be made so by careful use of the file. The points of the letters 

 should indent evenly a thick piece of paper. Next, plenty of India 

 ink should be used. The points should be firmly pressed in and im- 

 mediately the ink must be rubbed into the wounds. The advantage 

 of the tattoo mark is that it does not deface the ear, is absolutely 

 permanent and can not be transferred by any trickster from one 

 sheep to another. Tattoo markers are make by F. S. Burch, 178 

 Michigan Street, Chicago, 111. The first cost is rather heavy but in 

 the long run there is a saving as the ink is cheap. 



WRANTNG. 



Don't be in a hurry to wean lambs that are to be kept. There 

 is nothing like mother's milk, unless it is more mother's milk! Let 

 the lambs have access to all the bran and oats they can eat, all the 

 green feed and the mother's milk too. You can shorten the time of 

 development at least one year by liberal feeding. It takes less feed 

 to make a sheep if it is fed in one year than if it had been fed in 



