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THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



judgment, stands and shifts the gate, shunting the ewes 

 and thin sheep into one pen, theprime muttons into another. 

 This sorting pen is so useful a thing that 1 think best to 

 show a sketch of it here. Most sheep farmers need one. 



The lane must be narrow enough to compel single file, 

 as the sheep go in, sixteen inches is about right, and the 

 lane should be ten feet long at the least, twenty feet is bet- 

 ter, and the gate closed or opened switches the approaching 

 sheep into either apartment as desired. 



SORTING PEN. 



This pen of western lambs interests us. They have the 

 tell-tale smutty faces indicating the Shrop cross. We would 

 like them to feed, so healthy and lively and growthy they 

 seem, but Swift's buyer bids above the nickle and we leave 

 them to him. 



Here is a small lot of native lambs. They seem nearly 

 full-blooded Shrops. Note the shrunken fleece, lack-lustre 

 eyes and languid movements. These mean that parasites 

 have struck them. Everywhere I go the evidence piles up 

 before me that the parasite has the eastern shipman in his 

 grip. What are we going to do about it? We will do some- 

 thing, depend upon it. 



Here are some native ewes, good ones, nearly pure- 

 blooded Shrops. They, too, are infested, as is plain to be 



