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from the draughts and coughed." The facts 

 were correctly observed but the reasoning was 

 defective; it was not the "draught" that made 

 the sheep cough but the throat worms and lung 

 worms instead that gained entrance from the 

 infected area of the tree shade. 



MAP.KBTING THE SPKIKG LAMB. 



Through Virginia and Kentucky there are 

 many sheep breeders who make a practice of 

 growing their lambs on grass alone, having 

 them born usually in March and putting them 

 off fat in June. They usually contract them 

 ahead for about $6 per cwt. They find 

 this business very profitable and thus their 

 rough lan^s devoted to sheep pastures steadily 

 improve rather than deteriorate. 



It is a temptation to the young shepherd to 

 keep the lambs over till fall or perhaps to feed 

 them again the following winter. This seldom 

 pays so well as to have them fat early and get 

 rid of them then at a good price. When they 

 come to market as late as August and from 

 then to Christmas they must compete with 

 lambs grown on the ranges under much more 

 favorable conditions for cbeap production. 

 Moreover, the lambs during the hot summers 

 of the corn-belt do not gain much fat ; if in fact 

 they hold what they made in May and June 

 they do well, and there is besides that terrible 

 danger, the parasite. 



DOCKING. 



Unless one is certain that his lambs will go 

 early to market, say at an age not exceeding 



