XXIV TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XII 



Milk Lambs and How to Obtain, Grow and Market Them 



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1. What Is Meant by a Milk Lamb 238 



(a) The strict meaning, of the term. 



(b) The common acceptation of the term. 



(c) Only grown during recent years. 



2. The Essentials in a Milk Lamb 239 



(a) Essentials in regard to growth. 



(b) Essentials in regard to weight. 



(c) Essentials as to the time of marketing. 



3. .How TO Obtain Milk Lambs 240 



(a) From a limited number only of the breeds. 



(b) From sheep whose breeding habit has been modified. 



(c) The sources are as yet limited. 



4. How TO Change the Breeding Habit 241 



(a) Two methods of changing. 



(b) Changing by selection only. 



(c) Changing by breeding and selection. 



(d) The part that food plays in such change. 



5. Experiment at the Minnesota Experiment Station 243 



(a) The foundation stocks chosen. 



(b) The sires used in service. 



(c) The character of the feeding. 



(d) The results that were obtained. 



6. Milk Lambs from Other Than from Dorset Sires 244 



(a) When other sires can be used. 



(b) Which of these are suitable. 



(c) Why the progeny must all be sold. 



7. Where Milk Lambs Should Be Grown 245 



(?) On farms located near shipping stations. 



(b) Where suitable foods can be grown and stored. 



(c) Not too distant from the place of consumption. 



(d) Where the demand will exist for such lambs. 



8. The Quarters Suitable for Milk Lambs 24a 



(a) The lambing pens called for northward. 



(b) Feeding in a basement. 



(c) Quarters in milder latitudes. 



9. Care and Food for the Dams 247 



(a) Grading may be necessary. 



(b) The fodders and feeding them. 



(c) The succulence and feeding it. 



(d) The concentrates and feeding them. 



