472 Tjiaxsactioxs of the Americax institute. 



(1 nvn of the food, for no such office is pcrfornied in that ])art of the 

 scomach, the food being softened and not ruljbed down. They can- 

 not be injnrious to the liorse, for he enjoys the most perfect health 

 when the cuticular part of his stomach is tilled with them, and their 

 presence is often not even suspected. They cannot be removed bj 

 medicine, because they are not in that part of the stomach to which 

 medicine is usually conveyed, and if they were, their mouths are too 

 deeply buried in the mucus for any medicine that can be safely 

 administered to effect them ; and, last of all, in the natural course 

 of things, they detach themselves and come away. " Therefore," 

 concludes Youatt, "the wise man will leave them to themselves." 

 Stonehenge, the English authority, holds the same opinions, and, on 

 the last named point, he says emphatically : " N^o medicine is known 

 which will kill the larvcB without danger to the horse," and he coun- 

 sels the groom to be not meddlesome, but patient, and avoid any 

 attempt to hasten the expulsion, which, in due time, never fails to 

 occur. 



Large Laiibs and How to Eaise Them. 

 Mr. John Floyd, Green Springs, Ohio, inquired how to raise such 

 large, nice lambs, as he had seen reported in the Xew York papers, 

 some of which, he writes, weigh from fifty to sixty pounds each. I 

 know, he says, that many hundreds of ewes are purchased in this 

 locality, taken to New Jersey or near Kew York for the purpose of 

 rearing early lambs. But how they manage to feed the lambs of 

 our small ewes to such a weight, so early in the season, is what we 

 want to know. AVill some member of the Club tell us what to do, 

 and hovf to do it ? 



Mr. S. E. Todd. — Perhaps this question may be answered satisfac- 

 torily by relating a bit of my own experience. My father once 

 separated a lot of old cull ewes from his flock and turned them into 

 the highway, saying that they might go to grass, as they were worth- 

 less to him. x\s I had no sheep, I proposed to take them and rear 

 some lambs. But he remonstrated against the suggestion, saying 

 that I could do nothing with them, as they were too old and poor. 

 Beside that, he suggestod I had no turnips. Therefore, it would be 

 the hight of folly for me to attempt to rear lambs from such sheep. 

 But as my fields furnished an abundance of pasture at that time, I 

 ventured to disregard the counsel. So I tbok })ity on the old ewes, 

 and turned them into my pasture late in July. Then I employed a 

 a man to help me two days to snake off the lo^s and burn the brush 



