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the flock shall be kept in absolute freedom from in- 

 fection throughout the year. 



However, one will not absolutely need so many 

 enclosures as that. By June many of the lambs will 

 be ripe, by July many of the others, and even when 

 the lambs are born late when managed in this way 

 they should all be ripe as peaches by the middle of 

 August. After the lambs are gone the ewes can be 

 managed a little less carefully, especially if they 

 are in strong condition, though there is a comfort 

 in knowing that every stomach worm germ that 

 falls to the earth must die from a lack of a host. 



To make this thing doubly successful put flat bot- 

 tomed troughs in the pastures ahead, where the 

 lambs run, and put feed in them ; any sort of grain, 

 corn, oats, barley, bran, coarse-ground or broken 

 cake or oil meal. Thus the lambs will grow like 

 weeds and pay many times over for their grain. 

 Thus more sheep may be carried on the same 

 ground than would be possible under ordinary treat- 

 ment. There is scarcely any limit to the number 

 of sheep that can be safely kept on an eastern farm 

 under this system of management. The limit is, of 

 course, the size of the farm and the amount of grass. 

 Even this can be greatly helped by soiling. Eacks 

 may with great profit be placed in the fields and the 

 ewes fed green crops, fresh mown oats, peas, clover 

 or alfalfa. Thus twice as many ewes may be kept 

 as the grass alone will support. The writer would 

 suggest that about 400 ewes would keep one man 

 nicely busy in caring for them and their lambs, haul- 



