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for some weeks with little driving. There is 

 not the objection to late lambing on the 

 range that there is on the farm, since the 

 danger of parasitic infection is escaped in the 

 range flock. This is principally from two 

 causes, first that the soil is usually too dry 

 to permit the germs to develop upon it, and 

 second that the, sheep are moved often and sel- 

 dom return to graze over the same ground be- 

 fore an interval of weeks, months or a year. 



VIGOE OF EWES AND LAMBS. 



It is astonishing to see how little difficulty 

 range ewes have in passing through the perils 

 of lambing. There seems seldom a case of 

 wrong presentation and often not one ewe is 

 lost from a thousand at lambing time. 



Then the lambs seem endowed with remarka- 

 ble vigor at birth and not one of a thousand but 

 will get up and find his mother's maternal fount 

 without aid from the shepherd. Indeed this 

 is fortunate, seeing that he is generally remote 

 from yards or fences, and to catch a range 

 ewe is commonly a work of some difficulty. 



It is a lesson to the Eastern farmer to see 

 the remarkable viability and vigor of these 

 range-born lambs, being an illustration of 

 Nature's way of management to promote vigor 

 and reproduction. 



THE BUSY SHEPHEED AT LAMBING TIME. I 



A good shepherd will, however, be busy at 

 lambing time, for there are many little things 

 to occupy his attention then. One of the most 



