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on a very scant ration, such as oat straw, with lit- 

 tle or nothing else. After these two weeks, one of 

 high living and the other of almost starvation, they 

 were again fed an abundance of the richest feeds 



PLATE 50. Two grade Dorset ewes with their four winter lambs at 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



and were supposed to breed immediately. All of 

 these artificial methods have been tried by the 

 writer, but none of them proved to be at all suc- 

 cessful, which emphasizes the difficulty of work- 

 ing against nature. However, the ewes of one breed 

 of sheep, the Dorset Horn, naturally breed in the 



