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and the affected parts dressed with a mixture of carbolic acid one 

 part, water thirty parts. 



MUTTON FLOCKS. 



Although the advice here given is written primarily for Stud 

 Flocks, much of the same care and thought could profitably be 

 bestowed on the management of ordinary flocks, but in most cases 

 many more sheep could be run on the same holding, the turn-over 

 being much quicker with mutton flocks than those kept for stud 

 purposes, as with a proper system of growing successive crops 

 during the Spring, Summer and Autumn months the lambs 

 should all go to the butcher at 9 to 12 months old. Large joints 

 the public do not want, whilst there is an unlimited demand for 

 young, well matured, home grown mutton. 



The concluding pages contain the opinions of some of our 

 leading sheep-breeders on many questions vital to the farmer. 

 There is of necessity great difference of opinion upon details of 

 management, but much of this is explained by the varied con- 

 ditions under which the several breeds of sheep are reared. 



