ORDINARY TREATMENT OF LAMBS. 14! 



four separate kinds of green food every day, and they often 

 spend no more than three or four hours upon one particular fold. 

 Rape, clover heads, cabbages, and vetches, with cut mangels, 

 cake, and corn, constitute their daily fare, and thus growth is 

 extraordinarily rapid. It is no exaggeration to say that durin^ 

 the height of the season lambs will increase in live weight at 

 the rate of one pound a day an addition which must appear 

 marvellous, or past belief, to many graziers of sheep. The 

 full details of the system must furnish material for the next 

 chapter. 



