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lamb before it is stiff, if convenient, and put the skin on 

 the lamb 3'ou would have the lambless sheep own. "When 

 a boy, and we had the care of sheep, one brought three 

 lambs ; at thn.t time a single lamb died, and we put the 

 skin on one of these thrices, and the poor childless sheep 

 owned it. By holding a sheep that had some time be- 

 fore lost her lamb, the other two sucked her, occasion- 

 ally, but she did not own them until turned out, in the 

 spring. But after they had been out a few days, we 

 noticed that the three lambs were carefully cared for, 

 each having a mother exclusively. 



When the excrements of a lamb are so glutinous as 

 to fasten the tail to the vent, it must be washed clean, 

 and the tail and buttocks should be rubbed with pow- 

 dered clay or loam, and give some mild remedy, as 

 recommended for scours. When you give a lamb cow's 

 milk, use that of a new milch cow. 



WOOL IN THE STOMACHS OF LAMBS. 



Sometimes lambs die in consequence of little balls of 

 wool in the stomach, matted together into a hard sub- 

 stance, and sometimes closing the entrance into the guts. 

 Lambs are most aflected in this way when they are from 

 three to six weeks old. Most that are affected die, and 

 among the number are the fattest, and apparently the 

 most healthy of the flock. 



Symptoms. A lameness in the legs that causes them 

 to reel and stagger, and at last to fall down. Sometimes 

 they die suddenly- Those that do not show an aver- 

 sion to moving "about, exhibit distress after sucking, 

 weakness in their legs, and, in extreme cases, a total 

 loss of the use of their legs. 



No Remedy is prescribed, to our knowledge. Purges 

 produce no good effect. Emetics may. IMeans should 

 be taken to prevent the lambs taking wool into their 

 stomachs ; and this is difficult, as it is not known why 

 and how they do it. One author says, " When the dung 

 of the ewe is covered with wool, the lamb is apt to seize 

 it instead of the teat, and swallow it, and the lambs, see- 

 ing bits of hay fall on their mothers and on other lambs, 



