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dry feed before being loaded, and not even a full 

 meal at that. When fed lightly they will drink 

 water upon their arrival at the stock yards and 

 will look just about as good as they did at home, 

 and the shrinkage will be comparatively small. 



Another mistake that is very often made is 

 crowding too many lambs into one car. What is 

 the result? First, it is hard on the animals, and 

 second, it means another loss to the shipper. When 

 there is not sufficient standing room in the car 

 and the lambs are packed together like sardines, 

 the larger and stronger lambs will free themselves 

 by jumping on top of the others, but what becomes 

 of those underneath? They will patiently bear 

 the load as long as possible. Their strength, how- 

 ever, gives away before they reach their destina- 

 tion, and they sink to the floor and suffocate. 

 More than once the writer has seen stock cars 

 opened at stock yards in which from three to seven 

 lambs were found dead, due to overcrowding in 

 the car. Is there any profit in this? Is it not cruel 

 to subject poor, innocent lambs to such a terrible 

 death? No intelligent feeder or shipper will allow 

 himself to be guilty of such actions. 



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WINTER LAMBS. 



Where the chief object is to raise lambs for mar- 

 ket, there is in the writer's opinion no way to make 



