CARE OP THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB 



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all for pushing the farm-born lambs as rapidly as 

 possible by extra allowances of feed. 



Of course lambs that are pure-bred and intended 

 to stay on the farm to maturity must be fed a dif- 

 ferent ration from those that are merely to get fat 

 quick and end a short but happy and victorious life 



"MARY HAD FIVE LITTLE LAMBS." 



at the market. Stock lambs need abundant food 

 but no forcing. Their ration* aside from their moth- 

 ers' milk should be of oats and bran, with a trifle 

 of oilmeal, clover and alfalfa hay, and in their 

 ground feed there may be added a little fine ground 

 bonemeal. Bonemeal is made especially for animal 

 feeding, clean and pure. There is small danger of 



