CARE OF THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB 151 



vanced and the supply though increasing has not 

 been equal to the demand; There is, however, a wide 

 variation in prices obtained and if one finds his 

 lambs selling at a low price he had better investi- 

 gate to see what is wrong. It is better to keep the 

 lambs to sell alive in spring than dress them and pay 

 express charges and commissions for $3 to $4 each 

 in winter. During January and February, however, 

 good lambs, such as any careful man can as easily 

 make as any other sort, sell for from $8 to $15 each 

 in New York with small prospect of oversupply for 

 some time. 



TREATMENT OF THE LATE-BORN LAMBS. 



Naturally the larger part of the lambs will be 

 born too late for the fancy trade. Nor would there 

 be demand for all of them in the form of "fancy hot- 

 house lambs. " There is, however, abundant profit 

 in fattening them to be sold afoot in April, May, 

 June or July. Usually the highest prices are ob- 

 tained in June. At that time the supply of fat lambs 

 born on the ranges the previous summer and win- 

 ter-fed is about exhausted and the supply of fat 

 native winter or spring-born lambs has never yet 

 been adequate. 



To develop" lambs for this live trade they should 

 be fed just as advised for the winter lambs except 

 that they should be permitted to take more exercise 

 than when they are to be finished at the earliest pos- 

 sible moment. 



When grass comes the lambs should be kept off 



