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came they were very strong and vigorous, able 

 soon to run beside their mothers., tinder rajQch 

 conditions today lambs are bom very strong, 

 and it is rare to find one so weak as to be un- 

 able to suck without aid. 



Tlie writer remembers vividly his first ex- 

 perience with lambing ewes. The first win- 

 ter he let them have the run of a pasture, with 

 shelter, fed clover and com stover, and the re- 

 sult was a good lamb crop. A few of these 

 lambs were so remarkably promising, one sell- 

 ing for $18 at weaning time, that he was 

 encouraged to attempt to do much better the 

 next year. That winter proved to be rather 

 cold and stormv, so he kept them rather close. 

 Having learned the value of wheat bran as a 

 bone and muscle builder, he fed these ewes 

 about all the bran they wanted, and they con- 

 sumed a great deal, with clover hay. 



The lamb crop came early, and the lambs 

 were strong, being the product of hand coup- 

 ling with a vigorous sire. The difficulty was in 

 the enormous size of raanv of them, some be- 

 iner so large of bone that it was nearly impos- 

 sible for them to be delivered at all. One 

 Shropshire weighed 17 pounds at birth! Tts 

 mother died soon after its deliverv. and the 

 lamb itself was lost through unskillful feed- 

 in 3-. The net result was a small crop of mag- 

 nificent lambs secured at a cost of great labor 

 and pains. 



The nf'xt vear an old friend and shenherd 

 connsftlerl him to adont. a radicqllv different 

 policy. He was to allow the flock to run in the 



