CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER XV. 



SPEING MANAGEMENT CONTINUED. 



Congenital Goitre — Imperfectly Developed Lambs — Eheumatism 

 — Treatment of the Ewe after Lambing — Closed Teats — 

 Uneasiness — ^Inflamed Udder — Drying off — ^Disowning Lambs 

 — Foster Lambs — Docking Lambs — Castration 153 



CHAPTER XVI. 



SUMMER MANAGEMENT. 



Mode of "WasMng Sheep — Utility of Washing Considered — Cutting 

 the Hoofs — Time between Washing and Shearing — Shearing 



— Stubble Shearing and Trimming — Shearing Lambs and 

 Shearing Sheep semi-annually — Domg up Wool — Frauds in 

 Doing up Wool — Storing Wool — Place for Sell ing Wool — 

 Wool Depots and Commission Stores — Sacking Wool, 163 



CHAPTER XVn. 



SUMMER MANAGEMENT CONTINUED. 



Drafting and Selection — Registration — Marking and Numbering 



— Storms after Shearing — Sun - Scald ^- Ticks — Shortening 

 Horns — Maggots — Confining Rams — Training Rams — Fences 

 — Salt — Tar, Sulphur; Alum, &c. — Water in Pastures — Shade 



in Pastures — Housing Sheep in Summer — Pampering, 179 



/CHAPTER XVIII. 



FAIL MANAGEMENT. 



Weaning and Fall Feeding Lambs — Sheltering Lambs in Fall — 

 Fall Feeding and Sheltering Breeding Ewes — Selecting Ewes 

 for the Ram — Coupling — Period of Gestation — Management 

 of Rams during Coupling — DiTiding Flocks for Winter,.... 198 



CHAPTER XIX. 



"WINTEE MANAGEMENT. 



Winter Shelter — Temporary Sheds — ^Hay Bams with Open Sheds 



— Sheep Barns or Stables — Cleaning out Stables in Winter — 

 Yards — Littering Yards — Confining Sheep in Yards and to 

 Dry Feed, 311 



CHAPTER XX. 



■WINTER MANAGEMENT — CONTINUED. 



Hay Racks — Water for Sheep in Winter — Amount of Food 

 Consumed by Sheep in Winter — Value of Different Fodders 

 — Nutritive Equivalents — Mixed Feeds — Fattening Sheep in 



Winter — Regularity in Feeding — Salt, 330 



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