chapter xxv: 



Pasturage — Adaptability of Different Soils — Additional Foods in Short 

 Pasturage — Dry and Clean Pastures Essential — Treatment of Ewes 

 during the period of gestation — treatment of lambs — docking and 

 Castration — Feeding of Lambs — Illustration of Lamb-Creep— Weaning 

 Time, — Selection of Rams and Ewes for Breeding — Ddtping fpr Ticks — 

 Washing and Shearing — Care and Feeding in Winter — Comparative Nu- 

 tritive. Value of Foods. 



THE facts 

 and prin- 

 ciples i n 

 regard to the 

 breeding and 

 management of 

 sheep are very 

 few and simple, 

 but they are 

 such as are un- 

 fortun ately 

 largely neglect- 

 ed in our coun- 

 try, whose soil, 

 in its adapta- 

 bility to sheep 

 husbandry, i s 

 nowhere ex- 

 celled in civil- 

 ized lands. 



Fig. 1180.- 



-A Well-situated Sheep Pasture. 



And this remark suggests the key to the successful prosecution 

 of this branch of agricultural industry. Upon the character of the 

 soil on which sheep are pastured depends, to a controlling extent, 

 the profit to be derived from their cultivation. 



Land that is well drained, with a sandy loam or gravelly soil 

 and subsoil, bearing spontaneously short, fine herbage, mixed to a 

 large extent with white clover, is that which is best adapted to the 



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