62 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. 



observed that these Httle fellows do much better 

 when so treated than when a larger number is 

 turned together when the lambs are still real 

 young. 



There is no other time in a sheep's life when it 

 makes such rapid and economical gains as in its 



r*i \il 2\ l\\in [)urf l)rf i Shrnp^hirp IthiIis iL Lhi I nl\f^slt^ of 

 Wisrnnsin When lhr(( months old thi nni on the IlU WLiqhul S3 

 poun is ind thi \\ thrr on thr rMhl i 7 pounds 



first jrear, and especially so in the first six months 

 after birth. At the Wisconsin Experiment Station 

 the writer has raised many lambs that made an 

 average gain of five pounds per head each week 

 up to the age of three months. It is not at all un- 

 common for lambs to weigh fifty to sixty pounds 

 when sixty days old. The accompanying illustra- 

 tion shows a pair of purc-l)red Shropshire lambs, 



