70 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. 



raising lambs by hand is in most cases that they 

 did not understand the difference between cow's 

 milk and sheep's milk as regards richness and fat 

 percentage. People have a general idea that pure 

 cow's milk is too rich for lambs, but the writer is 

 of a contrary opinion. He knows from analyses 



PLATE 25. One lamb is happy, the other wishes his turn would 

 come. Pure-bred Southdown lambs raised on the bottle at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. 



of sheep's milk that cow r 's milk is much lower in 

 fat percentage than sheep's milk. Some years ago 

 at this Station a grade Dorset ewe showed in a 

 week's test 14.4 per cent of fat. Of course, her 

 milk was richer than the average. It is astonish- 

 ing to hear fairly well educated men say that one 



