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alleviator of pain in parturition troubles, laudanum, must be men- 

 tioned. Then other remedies may be given, briefly. There is alum, 

 useful in diarrhoea and in the prevention of excessive bleeding, 

 and bluestone or blue-vitrol, used successfully in footrot and navel- 

 ill in lambs; butter of antimony, a remedy used in conjunction 

 with other drugs for footrot; borax, very useful as a wash for 

 aptha or sores which frequently trouble the mouths of lambs; 

 carbonate of ammonia, a powerful stimulant used with consid- 

 erable success in difficult parturition cases, and that great stom- 

 achic and stimulant, ginger, all find a place in the shepherd's 

 medicine chest, as do also tar, rosin, hyposulphite of soda, nitric 

 acid, sweet spirits of nitre, linseed oil, oil of male shield fern, 

 charcoal, chalk and whiskey. Some shepherds say the latter is 

 one of the best remedies on the list. 



HAYRACKS. 



The hayrack is one of the most important feeding appliances 

 needed in sheepkeeping. Different people have different ideas as 

 to which is the most perfect hayrack. There are those who think 

 racks with slats running perpendicularly to be the best, while 

 others think that arranged with slats running diagonally with the 

 top of the rack farthest from the wall to be the thing. The writer, 

 however, considers that which is built almost exactly opposite to 

 the last mentioned is the one which gives the best results, especial- 

 ly so far as obviating or preventing hay seeds from lodging in the 

 neck of the sheep is concerned. It is built so that it is wider at 

 the bottom than at the top when closed. The proper way to make 

 it is to have the frame containing the slats or rungs fixed on hinges 

 so that it can be opened to allow of putting in the hay with com- 

 parative ease. 



PORTABLE PENS. 



One of the most useful appliances of the sheep barn is the 

 lambing pen. Its use is for keeping the newly-yeaned ewe and her 

 offspring from separating and providing them a certain amount 

 of privacy from the main flock. The portable pen is far and 

 away better than the permanent lambing pen if for no other reason 

 than that it can be easily knocked down and stored away in space 

 that is not so valuable as space on the floor of the sheep barn. 

 Where sheep are prepared for exhibition the permanent lambing 

 pen is all right, as it makes an ideal fitting pen. A very useful 

 portable pen is made from the following material : . Four 2x2 or 

 W 2 xiy 2 posts about three feet long and twelve boards say from 

 three to four feet long according to size of sheep six inches 

 wide and one-half or three-quarters of an inch thick. If the two 

 main panels of this pen be already put together it is but the mat- 

 ter of a few minutes to prepare the pen ready for use. As soon 



