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if it is removed and the scent on it (by which she recognizes it) 

 confused. On the other hand, she will own any thing, if, while 

 still lying on her side, before she has seen or smelled her own 

 lamb, the stranger is well rubbed in the liquor amnii and laid 

 before her. If it is chilled and unable to suck, bring out hot 

 flannels and put around it, leaving the head out for the ewe ; 

 give it a tea-spoonful or two of warm (ewe's) milk. Give no 

 cow's milk for the first three or four feeds, if it is possible to 

 avoid it. After the lamb has once sucked its fill there will be 

 no further danger. Still, all this puddering only makes accusa- 

 tion against a man's mismanagement through winter. Even full- 

 blood Merinos, seven or eight years old, if well exercised (this 

 ought to be burned in), wili rear their lambs under the above- 

 mentioned temperature with very little assistance. 



Nothing ought to be taken for granted as to the establish- 

 ment of working relations between ewe and lamb until the latter 

 is actually seen to suck. When for any reason it is unable to do 

 so, but is lively, the ewe should be laid on her left side, the lamb 

 on its right, the jaws opened with the left hand, and the teat 

 inserted. It will soon get a taste and begin to draw. A owe 

 lambing on a full feed of grass sometimes gives an excess of 

 milk, and the lamb will neglect one teat. It will become swollen 

 and ruined unless relieved. The milk ought to be drawn from 

 it, and the ewe confined to dry feed three or four days. 



Ewes restricted to timothy hay and corn, even when most 

 liberally fed, sometimes lose their lambs when ten days or more 

 old. They die of constipation, and the remedy is more relaxing 

 feed for the dams, with a teaspoonful of magnesia and two table- 

 spoonfuls of black molasses to the lamb. On the other hand, 

 breeding flocks running on flat, sour lands frequently suffer 

 heavy losses in lambs, generally the fattest and largest. The 

 head is thrown back, there is tremor and convulsions, some froth 

 at the mouth. The disease is popularly called "lamb cholera." 

 In most cases it is probably only a severe case of colic, the pre- 

 ventive for which is a liberal admixture of lime or wood ashes 

 in the dams' salt, which should be kept constantly in a covered 

 trough. 



