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rough road" comfortably together. The Scotch whisky 

 remedy consists of rubbing a little whisky over the lamb's 

 back and over the ewe's nose. Scotch shepherds claim this 

 remedy to have its recommendations. The method adopted 

 . by many shepherds of cutting off the' tail of the lamb and 

 rubbing the blood over the ewe's nose and on the back of 

 the lamb is one used in some cases with marked success. 

 Then the method of milking the ewe's milk onto the back 

 of the little stranger has its recommendations. Where a 

 we has a dead lamb, and it is intended that she act as a. 

 foster-parent to some strange lamb, the dead lamb should 

 be skinned while the animal heat is yet in its body and 

 the skin placed on the one which it is desired she should 

 adopt. The ewe's nose should be scratched with a pin or 

 something that will not cause her any serious amount of 

 unnecessary pain. The small quantity of blood coming 

 from the wound will, to use a slang phrase, "fool" her and 

 thereby bring about an affection that is true and lasting be- 

 tween the two. To be candid, I am averse to scratching 

 the ewe's nose, but I have proved it to have merits to 

 recommend it. 



In the case of a ewe having a fair average supply of both 

 lacteal fluid and instinct, but for some unknown reason she 

 absolutely refuses to recognize her lamb as is often the 

 case with young ewes by putting the ewe and lamb in a 

 small enclosure together and suddenly introducing the shep- 

 herd dog into their company a sudden reconciliation is often 

 brought about. 



It should be remembered that some ewes are wholly de- 

 void of maternal instinct and never will show any regard 

 for a lamb. 



