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- ^u should give them ground vetch or young grass 

 .'ore they go out to graze, and also when they 

 t return. And in this manner they are reared until 

 * cy reach four months. Some people meanwhile 

 not milk the mothers at these times. They do 

 il better who do not milk them at all the whole 

 le, as they then give more wool and bear more 

 nbs. When the lambs are weaned care must be 

 :en lest, missing the mother's udder, they pine 

 A ay. So in rearing them you must make the loss 

 more easy for them by good feeding, and must take 

 :e that they do not suffer at all from cold or heat. 

 When, having forgotten milk, the lamb ceases to 

 Imiss its mother, then, but not till then, should you 

 let it join the flock. Lambs must not be castrated 

 before they are five months old, nor before the ex- 

 treme heat or cold has abated. The rams preferred 

 for service are those which come from dams that 

 usually bear twins. ^ 



OMkes no sense. Schneider in his index gives it the meaninp^ 

 ;>f wpoeo9fpaivea9aif but this, in the only place I can find it, 

 Geoponica, xix, 2, means to '* bring to smell." One would 

 hMe expected madefacere or something of the kind. Colu- 



lUa (vii, 3, 17) says that the teats of the mother should be 

 pmsed and a few drops of milk squeezed between the parted 

 B|lt of the lamb, uberibus ad movcri^ turn etiam eius diductum 

 It pressis humectare pupillis. Madefacere is used by Varro, 

 iy 4, 15, and iii, 10, 7. If in the MS. the ma were obliterated, 

 i^acere might easily be altered to olfacere by one of the canes 

 \^tam misere Varr<mem dilaceraruntf as Schneider calls the 

 oonriitB. 



• Otminos, Aristotle (H. A. vi, 19) says that " sheep or 



