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feeding moldy and spoiled feed of any kind to his 

 flock, he is not a true shepherd; neither is the man 

 who feeds frozen roots or frozen corn silage, both 

 of which often prove fatal. Whoever believes that 

 the best results can be obtained by merely looking 

 at a flock, and does not go to work, is badly mis- 

 taken. 



If the shepherd does not supply his flock with 

 fresh, pure water every day in the year, but shares 

 the opinion of quite a number of men that sheep 

 need little or no water, he should learn as early as 

 possible that sheep require water just as well as 

 any other farm animal. Where the flock is allowed 

 to drink from old stagnant water pools, the shep- 

 herd runs the risk of having his flock infested with 

 all sorts of parasites. Failure to rub pine tar on 

 the sheeps' noses during fly time, or to supply this 

 in the salt trough, as is recommended elsewhere in 

 this book, may result in the flock becoming in- 

 fested with grub in the head. No shepherd can 

 have the best results in sheep husbandry without 

 providing some succulent feeds, such as roots, cab- 

 bage, or good, sweet corn silage, for his flock dur- 

 ing the winter months. 



The shepherd who is not aware of the serious 

 danger of narrow doors in the sheep barn, which 

 result in broken-down hips, pregnant ewes being 

 induced to drop their lambs before they are due, 



