THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



can also be used in larger quantities advan- 

 tageously whenever other root crops are being 

 fed, though excess must be avoided before the 

 lambing season, because of the danger of over- 

 feeding. On the third day, if the lamb is 

 nursing properly, and everything seems right 

 with the mother, they can both be turned into 

 a larger stable, and the ewe's rations gradually 

 increased. Cabbage, carrots, turnips, and bran 

 are all milk producers, so must form a liberal 

 percentage of the food, as on the supply of 

 milk depends the fattening of the lambs, 

 which, to catch the best prices, must be in 

 prime condition for market in December and 

 January eighty or ninety days from birth. 



When the first lambs are between two and 

 three weeks old, a pen is constructed of hur- 

 dles, in which there are openings ten inches 

 wide, and in this is placed special feed for the 

 lambs, which at first consists of a little bran, 

 night and morning. Then coarse meal and 

 hulled oats, coarsely ground, are added; also 

 a rack of clover hay; and, as they get stronger 



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