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There will be some years when there will 

 not be occasion for any remedy whatever, and 

 with the same treatment there will be at other 

 times more or less trouble. During hot and 

 wet weather when alfalfa is stimulated to very 

 rapid growth more trouble may be expected.- 



The writer has been in the habit of pastur- 

 ing alfalfa and yet allowing the sheep to shade 

 in the barn, permitting them to come off in the 

 morning when it got too hot for their comfort. 

 He has, however, been careful that a boy 

 should stir them out and send them fieldward 

 again by three or four o'clock in the after- 

 noon. 



In sowing alfalfa that probably may be pas- 

 tured be sure to sow a mixture of brome 

 grass (Bromus inermis) with it. A light 

 scattering of brome seed is best, else it will 

 soon crowd out the alfalfa. We have had no 

 difficulty in eradicating the brome grass when 

 aftei"ward the fields have been cultivated. 



The writer has solved most of the problems 

 of summer management in the way outlined. 

 One serious trouble, however, remains for 

 solution. The ewes will often get too fat 

 under such treatment and sometimes refuse to 

 breed regularly. He has not yet found a solu- 

 tion of this problem. In England, where this 

 often occurs, the fat ewes would go for mut- 

 ton and there would end that difficulty, but 

 where one has a flock of pure-bred sheep of 

 considerable value this is not a satisfactory 

 solution for America. 



Wq are at present practicing the breeding of 



