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stances the surplus wool should be removed at 

 once with the sheep shears, and the lamb be as- 

 sisted at its first meal. In rare cases it also be- 

 comes necessary to open up the teat by squeezing 

 out the little wax in the end of it. 



REVIVING THE ALMOST LIFELESS LAMB. 



Often a lamb has a hard struggle at birth and 

 arrives in this new world almost exhausted, lying 

 without any signs of lung action. The shepherd 

 has assisted the ewe in bringing the lamb forward, 

 but it seems to be almost, yet not quite, dead. All 

 that shows the lamb to be alive may be a single 

 quiver. Now is the time when he must act quickly 

 to revive the lamb. The first thing is to clean all 

 phlegm out of its mouth, then he must hold the 

 mouth open with his two hands and blow gently 

 three to four times into it to start up lung action. 

 Now he must lay it on its belly and beat it slightly 

 with his two hands, one on each side on its heart 

 girth right back of the shoulder, and if it does not 

 commence to breathe, he should blow into its 

 mouth again. If there is the slightest bit of life 

 left in the lamb, he will revive the lamb by this 

 method. Many such lambs that at first sight ap- 

 peared to be dead, have been revived by the writer 

 in this manner. 



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