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observed that these little fellows do much better 

 when so treated than when a larger number is 

 turned together when the lambs are still real 

 young. 



There is no other time in a sheep's life when it 

 makes such rapid and economical gains as in its 



PLATE 21. Twin pure-bred Shropshire lambs at the University of 

 Wisconsin. When three months old the ram on the left weighed 83 

 pounds, and the wether on the right 67 pounds. 



first year, and especially so in the first six months 

 after birth. At the Wisconsin Experiment Station 

 the writer has raised many lambs that made an 

 average gain of five pounds per head each week 

 up to the age of three months. It is not at all un- 

 common for lambs to weigh fifty to sixty pounds 

 when sixty days old. The accompanying illustra- 

 tion shows a pair of pure-bred Shropshire lambs, 



