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ToppiNESs, Broad Toppiness, etc. — Continued 



(c) How these defects may be prevented. 

 17. Influences from Environment that Are Hurtful 91 



(a) Injury from burs and how to prevent it. 



(b) Injury from needle grass and how to prevent it 



(c) Injury from substances when taking fodder. 



(d) Injury from exposure or improper housing. 



CHAPTER VI 

 Lambs from Birth Until Weaned 



1. The Season When Lambs Should Come 93 



(a) The influences that determine this. 



(b) Milk lambs for the winter market. 



(c) Winter lambs for the spring market. 



(d) Lambs to be sold as breeders. 



(e) Lambs to be finished in the autumn. 



(f) Lambs to be finished in the winter. 



2. The Dams When Nearing Parturition 95 



(a) When important to know the exact time of this. 



(b) How it may be known when the lambs will come. 



(c) When and how to separate such dams. 



3. Special Care at the Lambing Season 97 



(a) Reasons why such care is necessary. 



(b) Necessary in fields as well as in shed. 



(c) It should be ungrudgingly given. 



4. Giving Aid to the Dams in Labor 98 



(a) When such aid may be necessary. 



(b) Why it should be given skillfully and gently. 



(c) It is better not given when all is well. 



.'). Giving Aid to the Young Lambs 100 



(a) Of no advantage when the lambs are strong. 



(b) When aid will be helpful. 



(c) How aid may be given. 



5. Reviving Lambs that May Have Been Chilled 102 



(a) The methods of reviving them. 



(b) The dangers to be avoided. 



(c) When young lambs are chilled in fields. 



7. Ewes Not Owning Their Lambs 103 



(a) The causes that may lead to this. 



(b) How to manage in such instances. 



(c) Procedure when ewes lose their lambs. 



