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THE DOMESTIC SHEEP 



on the principle that "easy comes, easy goes." And of late 

 a good many flocks have been started to supply this increas- 

 ing demand, in all the large cities. 



The kind of house required is one of good size divided 

 into a number of pens, in which the lambs are kept. It is 

 a lamb house in fact, for them alone, the lambs being put 

 in it with the ewes for a short time until the ewes are well 

 acquainted with their business, when they may be fed in 

 another house, or if not too costly a matter the ewes and 

 lambs may be confined in the same house. The pens are 

 arranged in rows, with broad alley between them. Here 

 the ewes are fed while the lambs are kept in the pens. The 







drawing given shows a lamb house in which two hundred 

 lambs may be kept. The building is eighty by forty feet, 

 with an additional shed in the front, half the width, of the 

 main shed. It is scarcely to be recommended to undertake the 

 hot house system, with artificial heating, unless one is sure 

 of such a market for the lambs as will justify the cost of the 

 building, and heating apparatus, w r hich should be supplied 

 by steam rather than by any other method, on account of 

 the safety of it. The cost, however, is too great for the 

 ordinary lamb grower, whose products will sell later at a 

 less price, but with a far less cost and more profit. This 

 house will be found amply suitable for a Southern location, 

 where the temperature is never too severe for the safe rear- 

 ing of lambs coming even in December, or so much earlier 

 as to be sent to market in this month. A lamb is really a 



