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varies consideraltly with tlie Ijroed and also 

 with the district wliere slie is l^eiit and tlie 

 manner of keeping. In England among the 

 Dorset bleeders it is tlie custom to take three 

 or four crops of lambs to a Dorset ram, tlien 

 to breed them to a Down (Hampshire, Shrop- 

 shire or Sussex), and sell them in lamb to go 

 away to men who make it a practice to buy 

 these ewes, grow from them one or two crops 

 of lambs and send them fat to market. In 



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America it can hardly be said that there is 

 any established system anywhere, and the 

 more usual method is simply to continue to 

 use the ewe so long as her teeth are good, dis- 

 posing of her then for what she will bring. 

 There is something to be said for tliis prac- 

 tice, though undoubtedly when we have set- 

 tled down to a good and regulai' systeni of 

 management, when we have formed a habit of 



