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that are parasitic and therefore difficult to make 

 fat. He hopes and believes that the day will come 

 when this condition will be overcome and sheep will 

 be found as healthy on farms as on ranges, but even 

 then they will go fat to market instead of going to 

 swell the supply of feeders. 



FEEDING OF LAMBS. 



Let us now take up in detail the work of lamb 

 feeding, having by this time purchased our supply 

 of feeders, or having grown them ourselves. Meth- 

 ods of lamb feeding vary widely according to the 

 district where they are fed. We will consider the 

 several ways in detail. 



