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will now have to go on turnips and will get a 

 little sweet hay and linseed cake in addition. 

 If rough grass be available it is best to turn 

 them on to it, and they may get turnips and 

 cake, but no hay. It is very advisable to keep 

 ewes comparatively poor till lambing time, as if 

 brought into anything like high condition too 

 many deaths will result amongst the lambs. 

 Too much hay is liable to get ewes into too 

 good condition, and when this seems to be 

 resulting straw should be given instead. Ewes 

 with lamb must, of course, be treated gently 

 and not be excited by over-driving, etc. 



Ewes are lambed in the open in the south, 

 if dropped after March ; if before, they are 

 lambed in small pastures, with sheds divided 

 into pens by hurdles filled with straw. In the 

 north the ewes are brought into the stackyard 

 and lambed. 



For about three days after lambing the 

 ewes and their lambs should be in coops, and 

 given roots, hay, and a little linseed cake. 

 The next three days should be spent in a 

 strawyard, and then turn them on to meadow 

 grass and ''seeds," failing which, roots or rape, 

 if the lambing takes place before March. 



