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large enough to insert some small tube a small 

 joint of cane fishing pole, a pipestem or goosequill. 



Keep hold of the tube, else it will slip within the 

 paunch and be lost and perhaps do serious damage 

 to the sheep. After relief has been had disinfect 

 the wound. It should not be large enough to need 

 stitches, but care must be had that flies do not blow 

 it. Pine tar will repel flies. The wool should be 

 cut away from the wound. 



There will be some years when there will not be 

 occasion for any remedy whatever and with the 

 same treatment there will be at other times more 

 or less trouble. During hot and wet weather when 

 alfalfa is stimulated to very rapid growth more 

 trouble may be expected. 



The writer has been in the habit of pasturing 

 alfalfa and yet allowing the sheep to shade in the 

 barn, permitting them to come off in the morning 

 when it gets too hot for their comfort. He has, 

 however, been careful that a boy should stir them 

 out and send them fieldward again by three or four 

 o'clock in the afternoon. 



In sowing alfalfa that probably may be pastured, 

 be sure to sow a mixture of brome grass (Bromus 

 inermis) with it. A light scattering of brome seed 

 is best, else it will soon crowd out the alfalfa. We 

 have had no difficulty in eradicating the brome grass 

 when afterward the fields have been cultivated. 



The writer has solved most of the problems of 

 summer management in the way outlined. One se- 

 rious trouble, however, remains for solution. The 



