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it picks from tho ficlrls, as well in winter as in snrnmcr; 

 licncc, every year, poverty and disease arising from po- 

 verty ; every ycara loss of lambsand amiserable pittance of 

 dry wool half fallen of!', consequent on poverty and dis- 

 ease ; and every four or five years, infection and death 

 by wholesale. 



The following are the only three simple rules neces- 

 sary to be observed, to give and to preserve fine Sheep 

 and good wool 



Nurse your lambs when they first come into the 

 world. 



Support yojir sheep in good heart at all seasons while 

 they live. 



And do ntot suffer them to live longer than tbcy can feed 

 with industry and vigor. 



The breeders should be put together sa that the lambs 

 may begm to drop about the 10th of February ; by this 

 time the winter is broken, and every day looks to milder 

 weather. Early lambs are of advantage, and with care, 

 at this season, even ninety five in an hundred rnay be sav- 

 ed. Where more than five per cent, is lost in lambs, 

 there is neglect. With the double lambs, there may be 

 readily raised, every year, more lambs than there are 

 ewes — To secure this care, let it be remembered that 

 *' the eye of the master is the most sure." At this inter- 

 esting period he should see his flock, at least once a day — 

 and the man who attends his sheep, and who must be 

 trusty and handy, should visit them at short intervals, 

 throughout the day, an«I particular}y early and late, dur- 

 ing the time of yeaning. Let there be prepared a small lot 

 or paddock, near the common pen, and shelters. In the 

 paddock, let there be ashed or cover of some kind to keep 

 off rain and snow, under which fix a parcel of little pens, 

 live or six feet square, and three feet high, no matter how 

 rough, aufl in number proportioned to your stock. Ten 

 for one hundred ewes will be enough, for the purpose 

 of confining a ewe and lamb occasionally. 



A ewe goes twenty one weeks, twoorthrce days more 

 or less. By having noted when the rams were put into tbo 



