Fitting Wethers for Shows. 21 1 



are fed only a half meal of dry feed, to prevent 

 scouring. 



When feeding yearling wethers and lambs we 

 often find that some of them become troubled with 

 sore sheaths. These should be treated as already 

 stated elsewhere in this work. They should be 

 washed out with a syringe a few times, using one 

 quart of warm water to one-half teaspoonful of 

 permanganate of potash, and a little iodoform 

 should be sprinkled on the sore. This treatment 

 will soon remedy the trouble. 



FITTING WETHER LAMBS. 



Lambs that are to be shown late in the fall are 

 generally put into the barn about September 1. 

 Their grain ration has been outlined before. Dur- 

 ing warm weather they should be fed all the green 

 feed they will eat, such as cabbage, roots, and 

 green clover. Care must be taken that they are 

 not overheated and foundered from too heavy 

 grain feeding. There is, however, no danger of 

 getting lambs too fat through heavy grain feeding, 

 for they are growing too rapidly to put on much 

 fat. In cooler weather more grain may safely be 

 fed, and the allowance of green feed cut down 

 somewhat, for feeding an excessive amount of 

 green feed continuously is apt to make the lambs 

 a little soft. Of course, there is not nearly so much 



