202 MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF SHEEP 



first it may be necessary to cut them open and to sprinkle 

 them with salt, but soon the sheep become fond of them. 

 Squashes of the soft-shelled varieties only are adapted 

 to such feeding. Whether pumpkin seeds thus consumed 

 by lambs tend to protect them from intestinal parasites 

 of certain kinds has not been made quite clear. 



