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been allowed to accumulate for any considerable period, and 

 allowed to become dry and hard a keen knife is the best 

 instrument to remove the tags; of course care being observed 

 that the skin is not. cut. In cold weather sheep should not 

 be tagged too closely. Usually, unless where succulent ra- 

 tions are in abundance, tagging is not often necessary dur- 

 ing the Winter. 



How to Drench a Sheep. 



There would be very few cases of choking sheep to death 

 if we would only take the trouble to study the anatomy of 

 the animal for a few moments. Upon opening the neck of a 

 sheep, by cutting from at a point near the breast toward 

 the under jaw, as the sheep lays on its back, we first notice 

 the windpipe. Next to this comes, or is exposed to view, 

 rather, the gullet, or pipe by which the food is carried to 

 the stomach. Now the reason why sheep are sometimes 

 choked to death while being drenched by the novice, is, that 

 he does not fully understand the construction and disposition 

 of these important organs. 



Quite often, when in the act of drenching a sheep, the 

 young shepherd fails to keep the mouth of the drenching 

 bottle, or drenching horn, as the case may be, high enough 

 up toward the roof of the animal's mouth, and the conse- 

 quence is some of the dose or drench finds its way into the 

 windpipe and death results. If, when the young shepherd 

 happens to have a sheep die, he would only take the trouble 

 to open it and make a careful study of its anatomy, we would 

 hear of less loss from drenching and other minor troubles 

 that are ever occurring to worry the young enthusiast. 



