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Internal parasites, such as stomach worms, may 

 be easily controlled. There are a number of medi- 

 cated stock powders which can be fed to the sheep, 

 and which will destroy these parasites, but prob- 

 ably the most common and effectual remedy is the 

 feeding of ordinary tobacco stems. Powdered to- 

 bacco may be mixed with grain or bran, and fed 

 to the sheep if desired, but the refuse stems should 

 be placed in the feeding stalls where the sheep have 

 easy access to them. They will usually soon learn 

 to nibble at them, and eat small portions, which 

 will be sufficient to keep them free from the or- 

 dinary internal parasites. 



FEEDING LAMBS FOR MARKET 



There is no branch of animal husbandry which 

 has attracted more attention, in recent years, nor 

 from which greater profits have been realized than 

 from the fattening of lambs for market upon the 

 farms of the middle and far West. There have been 

 some years when heavy losses have been incurred, 

 due to extravagant prices exacted by the sheep 

 raisers, by the high price for feed, or low condition 

 of the market at a time when it was necessary to 

 sell these lambs. But taking any considerable 

 term of years together, lamb fattening has proved 

 a profitable industry in every community where it 

 has been undertaken within the past 20 years, and 

 it is becoming increasingly so at present because of 

 the continuously increasing demand for mutton in 

 the face of a practically stationary supply. If large 

 profits have been realized by feeders who have paid 

 from 3 to 5^2 cents per pound for the original stock, 

 and paid high prices for all the feed consumed by 

 it, it can be readily seen that the farmer who has 



