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SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



Before the lambs are due it is well to turn 

 each ewe up on her rump, using her gently, 

 and with shears clip the wool away from the 

 udder; particularly the little locks that might 

 be seized by the lamb when searching for 

 the teat. 



Before the lambing season the shepherd 

 should provide himself with some little panels, 

 made of light wood, like doors, each panel 36" 

 high and 48" long. Two of these panels should 

 be hinged together at the ends so that they 

 may be folded together and laid away or 

 opened in the shape of the letter L. The 

 use of these is to make little pens in which 

 to place ewes about to lamb, or newly lambed, 

 to prevent their lambs straying away and get- 

 ting mixed through the flock. Thus many 

 lambs will be saved that otherwise would be 

 lost and much of the usual vexatious work of 

 the shepherd avoided. To use these panels, 

 one is opened at right angles in the comer 

 of the lambing room, and by aid of hooks 

 fastened at the free ends to the wall, thus mak- 

 ing a pen 4'x4'. As it is tight, the lamb can 

 not creep out, and the ewe being unable to see 

 out is made more tranquil. AYhen there is need 

 of another such pen it is set up alongside 

 the first one and thus on until a row has been 

 erected across the end of the building. If 

 there be need, another row can join these. 



The observant shepherd can usually fore- 

 tell the advent of a lamb, for the ewe shows 

 by her appearance and her actions that she 

 is expecting it. Because of her instinct, in- 



