62 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



you will observe carefully some rules for avoid- 

 ance of parasites, to be laid down later. 



GETTING HOME WITIT THE PLOCK. 



The writer remembers with delight the day 

 when he drove to Woodland Farm his first 

 flock of ewes. It was a fine sunny day in No- 

 vember. The sheep were well selected and 

 round and plump, all young ewes. They trav- 

 eled willingly along the country road through 

 a quiet neighborhood where great oaks over- 

 arched the way and stopping now and then to 

 browse the green grass among the purpling 

 wild asters. 



The writer was but a boy then, newJy wed- 

 ded, filled with high hopes and dreaming brave 

 dreams of the future. The young wife met him 

 and together they drove home the little flock! 

 Happy beginning it proved to be, though many 

 lessons remaiined to be learned and many dis- 

 couragements to be fought through, yet the 

 coming of the flock meant the beginning of 

 the upbuilding of the old farm and of the for- 

 tunes of its owners. 



IMPORTANCE OF DIPPING. 



When the flock comes home the first duty 

 is to give it a thorough dipping. There are two 

 reason for this: the one that there may be 

 ticks upon the sheep; the other because of 

 danger from scab germs. Any sheep shipped 

 by rail or penned in stock yards or railway 

 stock pens is liable to be infected with scab 

 germs. One or two scab insects on a sheep 



