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selected, and a small pen or creep may be constructed 

 for them. 



Food previous to weaning. — For feeding lambs that 

 are to be used for breeding purposes, the writer has 

 a preference for bran and oil meal. They will make 

 more growth on this than they would if corn meal were 

 added to the mixture. The latter would make them 

 fleshier, but would not produce frame to the same 

 extent as the other foods do. Oats are wholesome, but 

 the lambs will do better on them after they have been 

 weaned. In feeding lambs, the aim should be to 

 give them all the food they have the capacity to 

 consume without gorging them. That implies fre- 

 quent feeding in small quantities. The details in 

 feeding young lambs are as follows : In the morn- 

 ing at six o'clock they are fed a small quantity of 

 grain in the trough. After the other sheep are fed, 

 it is noted if the lambs have eaten the grain that was 

 given them, and if so, more is put into the trough. 

 At noon, they receive another allowance. In the 

 evening, they are fed twice in the same way as in 

 the morning, and they are left at night with some 

 grain in their troughs. 



Quantity of grain to feed. — At first lambs will take 

 but a small quantity of grain, but as soon as a few 

 of them come to the trough at your call, the others 

 soon follow and the grain is eagerly eaten. The best 

 guide as to the quantity to feed is the judgment of 

 the feeder. Liberal feeding is the source of liberal 



