one of business. The questions I ask of a ewe are: Can you pro- 

 duce lambs in November or December? Can you produce one or 

 more at a time? Can you provide the lambs with an abundance of 

 milk, so that they will be ready for market in sixty or seventy days? 

 It is only the ewe that can answer all these questions "yes" that is 

 at all desirable as a mother of hot-house lambs. 



The first question is most important of all. The best and only 

 remunerative market for hot-house lambs is during the first ten 

 weeks of the year, so the lambs must be here before the snow flies 



J:>hn B. Pcelle's Man Utilizing Spare Milk After Her 

 Lamb Has Gone to Market . 



if we want large profits. The October lamb is too early and will 

 only sell as a lamb and not as a fancy product and the late January 

 and February lambs are too late in the season for the high prices. 

 So far as I have been able to learn the Dosets and their grades 

 are the only breed of sheep that will breed with any reliability at 

 the right time. The hot weather that causes most sheep to miss 

 the oestrual perioJ does not seem to affe:t the Dorsets. In fact 

 the mating often occurs during the hottest of hot weather. Twenty- 



