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these things have been done and cannot be altered. 

 Nothing will be said here about the starvation of 

 so many poor sheep on the Western ranges dur- 

 ing the winter months. Let us at least learn to 

 pick up those pieces of barb wire, broken from 

 fences, that lie across our lanes, so that sheep will 

 not daily get tangled, cut their legs, and pull out 

 their wool. To get all the profit which is possible 

 out of sheep many such matters, which may seem 

 like trifles, must be attended to by the shepherd. 



CATCHING THE SHEEP. 



When the shepherd wishes to catch a sheep he 

 should grasp it at the proper place, namely, at the 

 flank. The accompanying illustrations show the 

 wrong and the right way to catch a sheep. Many 

 an ignorant flockowner catches and takes hold of 

 the sheep by the wool, at any place he can get hold 

 of best, in the manner shown in the first picture. 

 Men who do this do not realize that the skin of the 

 sheep is very lightly attached to its flesh, and that 

 by holding the sheep by the wool in this careless 

 manner the skin is torn loose from the flesh as far 

 and a little farther than the hand's reach, thus in- 

 juring the innocent sheep. It has been our expe- 

 rience that it takes the sheep about two months to 

 recover from the bruise thus caused. On the other 

 hand, if the sheep is held by the flank, as is shown 



