CARE OP THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB. 119 



be sold afoot in. April, May, June or July. 

 Usually the highest prices are obtained in 

 June. At that time the supply of fat lambs 

 bom on the ranges the previous summer and 

 winter-fed is about exhausted and the supply 

 of fat native winter or spring born lambs has 

 never yet been adequate. 



To develop lambs for this live trade they 

 should be fed just as advised for the winter 

 lainbs except that if they are to reach an age 

 of four or five months they should be permit- 

 ted to take more exercise, than if they are to 

 be finished at the earliest possible moment, 



^Tien grass comes the lambs should be kepi 

 off of it until it is actually sweet. The sun 

 must have time to get into it before it will be 

 strong and good and to eat it before that time 

 is a damage alike to the grass and the lambs. 

 Furthermore when they have a taste of green 

 grass they will not eat dry forage well, so there 

 is loss all around. Keep them on dry feed 

 therefore until there is abundant green grass 

 and it is sweet, then you may let them go to 

 it without fear of them shrinking. 



There is little danger of scouring from eat- 

 ing grass after it has become sweet. The corn, 

 of which they are now eating a great deal, has 

 a tendency to prevent it and after a day or 

 two they will go on as though nothing had 

 been changed, happy indeed beyond words in 

 the fresh spring sunshine land lush pasture, 

 before flies have come or summer heats to op- 

 press. 



Here is a great argument for having lambs 



