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ram, then to breed them to a down (Hampshire, 

 Shropshire or Sussex), and sell them in lamb to go 

 away to men who make it a practice to buy these 

 ewes, grow from them one or two crops of lambs 

 and send them fat to market. In America it can 

 hardly be said that there is any established system 

 anywhere, and the more usual method is simply to 

 continue to use the ewe so long as her teeth are 

 good, disposing of her then for what she will bring. 



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There is something to be said for this practice, 

 though undoubtedly when we have settled down to 

 a good and regular system of management, when 

 we have formed a habit of good management, we 

 will turn off our ewes young enough so that they 

 may be finished easily into prime mutton and will 

 not have become " shelly. " The number of lambs 

 that can be taken from a ewe varies somewhat with 

 the breed. Those that mature quickly the sooner 



