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boneset tea. We shall often recommend injections, and would 

 say that no flock-master should ever be without a syringe. 

 The lamb is to be held up perpendicularly by the hind legs, 

 the fore feet just touching the floor, for a moment during and 

 after the injection. If a healthy looking lamb does not suck 

 well, examine his teeth, and cut the gums where any are press- 

 ing through- Watch the lamb and see that his dung does not 

 pin down his tail over the vent. If so, remove the dung and 

 rub the vent with chalk, or dry clay. If a lamb purges too 

 freely, give a teaspoonful of chalk in milk. When the lambs 

 are born with swelled neck, bind a woollen cloth around the 

 neck and soak it in camphor. If the lambs are otherwise im- 

 perfect, cull them and get them out of the flock. 



Ewes after Lambing- should be allowed rest, quiet, and the 

 best of feed. If any of the ewes do not seem to give milk 

 enough for their lambs, separate them from the rest and give 

 them oatmeal gruel, roots, bran slop, etc. 



When the teats have been cut off by the shearer, open them 

 with a knitting needle, following with a hot needle ; insert only 

 far enough to secure an opening. A young ewe will some- 

 times refuse to let the lamb suck , she should be held until the 

 lamb has once drawn his rations. If the udder is inflamed or 

 caked, wash in hot water until a flow is secured ; in the mean 

 time putting the lamb to a ewe that has lost hers, or has milk to 

 spare. A ewe with a good supply of milk, who loses her lamb, 

 should have another, if there are twins or extra lambs, but 

 if she is to be dried off, she should be fed on dry feed, and 

 milked once a day for a week, and two or three times the next 

 week. Every flock should have a dozen or two of pens for a 

 hundred or more sheep. These should be three or four feet 

 square, and high enough so that a sheep cannot jump out. 

 Whenever a ewe disowns a lamb, or is wanted to adopt a lamb. 



