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SHEEP FEEDING 



it becomes necessary to stimulate a strong flow of milk in 

 the ewes, they are turned onto it. This is one of the chief 

 requisites for the successful raising of early lambs, and it is 

 one that can be duplicated by most of the farmers of the 

 corn belt. One farmer says : " I can predict my success with 



MONTH-OLD LAMBS OUT or WESTERN EWES BY A PURE-BRED SHROP- 

 SHIRE BAM, RAISED UNDER FlELD CONDITIONS 



Their weights, from left to right, were 32, 35, and 33 pounds. The first one is 

 shown on page 115. The second and third are the most desirable market type 



my lamb crop by the stand of winter wheat I have. There is 

 nothing that makes the ewes give more milk and the lambs 

 grow faster than wheat or rye pasture from January to the 

 middle of March." In March, or the first part of April, the 

 flock is turned onto orchard or blue-grass pasture and left 

 there until the latter part of May or early in June, when 

 the lambs are sold. 



