FITTING SHEEP FOR SHOW RING AND MARKET 8$ 



forerunner of footrot. It is safe to say that many a good 

 flock has been ruined through the neglect of the shepherd 

 to provide the necessary bedding for it. Footrot is a 

 wonderfully easy disease to contract, but a terribly hard 

 one to get free from when once it has secured a foothold on 

 the farm. Perhaps it would not be out of place to mention 

 here the necessity of removing the placenta, or cleaning, 

 of the ewes, especially those from ewes that have aborted. 

 Of course if any be allowed to remain in the barn ob- 

 noxious odors are bound sooner or later to be the result, 

 which, to say the least, is decidedly wrong from a sanitary 

 point of view, not to make mention of its liability of caus- 

 ing serious trouble, such as abortion', etc., in the flock. 

 That foul odors, from whatever cause arising, are injurious 

 tmd detrimental to the general health of sheep no reason- 

 able person will dispute; hence the importance of cleanly- 

 kept and well-bedded barns and yards. 



The Value of a Straw Stack. 



A straw stack in the sheep yards adjoining the sheep barn 

 is a very desirable thing to have, notwithstanding some lit- 

 tle disadvantages it may have. The one most serious ob- 

 jection to having it placed in the sheep yards is that the 

 wool on the neck of the -sheep is liable to become filled 

 with dust and chaff while they are searching for the best 

 elements of which it consists. But the advantages gained 

 by the saving of hay, etc., offsets all injury done to the 

 fleece by this. Sheep enjoy picking the dust and finer por- 

 tions of straw from the stack, especially if it be an oat 

 straw stack. Ewes and lambs delight in lying alongside 



