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to furnish any grain during this time. However, it is safest 

 to count on feeding the equivalent of from one to three 

 pecks of corn per head during this time ; some figure that 

 the grain costs one dollar per head per year. Frequently 

 no shelter is needed, but it is advisable to have an open 

 shed to which the ewes can go on stormy days, especially 



JUST A FEW HOURS OLD AND WEIGHS TWELVE POUNDS 



during the lambing season. The first lambs are dropped 

 about the first of January, and the last arrive not later 

 than the end of March. On all days that are not too wet 

 or snowy during lambing time the ewes should be left in 

 the pasture. 



During the early fall the best flock masters prepare a 

 piece of ground for some winter grain, as oats, barley, wheat, 

 or rye (the last two being the best), and by January, when 



