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grass. Indeed a lamb dropped then will make a far 

 better growth than one dropped weeks earlier from 

 a poorly-nourished ewe, half-starved by its mother 

 because she cannot give it much milk before she her- 

 self has been fed. Nor will such a ewe respond in 





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IMPORTED HAMPSHIRE RAM LAMBS. 



her milk flow to green grass as she would did her 

 lamb come after grass has started anew in her veins 

 a vigorous coursing of the vital fluid. 



It is most wise, however, to see to it that these 

 late lambing ewes are strengthened by some supple- 



