CHAPTER V. 



SUMMER CABE AND MANAaEMENT. 



THE EWE FLOCK. 



In winter the shepherd is a god to his flock. 

 Shut away from natural sources of food supply 

 the sheep depend entirely upon his providence 

 and therefore their thrift rests entirely upon 

 his knowledge and willingness to give. In sum- 

 mer Nature provides forage in abundance and 

 turned out in the fields the sheep can choose 

 as their instincts prompt them. They should 

 then thrive upon pasture as nowhere else. 

 They would were it not for two things: one 

 that the shepherd too often considers a "pas- 

 ture" as being an enclosure surrounded by a 

 good fence, regardless of what the forage may 

 be within ; the other that in simamer time come 

 pests of flies, maggots and worms, internal 

 parasites. The shepherd who thoroughly \ 

 learns the lesson of prevention of these pests 

 will find his work a joy and will stay with it 

 and make a large profit from his flock. The 

 man who simply turns the flock to pasture and 

 gives it no more attention or thought will very 

 likely find himself confronted with a lot of dis- 

 eased and unprofitable sheep within a few 



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