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the iMiportance of seeing that the yards and surroundings 

 are such as to prevent the slipping and sliding of the ewes, 

 as an abortion is often traceable to this cause. 



The Importance of Exercise for Breeding Ewes. 



Without a reasonable amount of exercise no ewe can be 

 expected to bring forth a healthy, vigorous offspring. Where 

 due attention is not given to this important matter we 

 may look for our lambs to come small, puny, and perhaps 

 goitred. Ewes having insufficient exercise during preg- 

 nancy usually experience a very trying time when yeaning, 

 and the loss of many a valuable ewe may be traced to this 

 cause. To keep ewes penned up in small, or narrow pens 

 during Winter and stuffing them with grain is entirely wrong 

 it is nothing short of killing them with kindness. Ewes 

 should be allowed plenty of exercise; they should be al- 

 lowed the range of a large field in the day time, rather than 

 be compelled to remain prisoners within the narrow limits 

 of the average yard allowed them by many shepherds. They 

 should, to a certain extent, be made to rustle for a living, 

 as exercise not only tends to increase the quality of the 

 lamb crop, but likewise the size. 



Change of Pasture. 



Without frequent change of pasture sheep cannot be ex- 

 pected to thrive at their best. True, they will keep alive, 

 and may appear tolerably thrifty, but sheep put into a 

 pasture field in. the Spring and compelled to stay there 

 until Fall will never attain the size they would have, had 

 they had frequent change of pasture. 



