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cows' milk must be resorted to, it should by all means be that 

 of a new -milch cow. This is generally fed from a bottle 

 having on its nose an artificial India-rubber lambs' nipple — 

 now manufactured and sold for the express purpose. But 

 milk flows less freely from a bottle than from a vessel having 

 two vents, and accordingly tea-pots, or other vessels manufac- 

 tured fbr the purpose, with spouts so constructed as to hold 

 the artificial nipple, are now more used. * Milk should be 

 fed at about its natural temperature — but when cold, never 

 be heated rapidly enough to scald it, which renders • it 

 costive in its efiects. A new-born lamb fed on other ewes', 

 or on cows' mUk, should be fed about six times, at equal 

 intervals between sun -rise and ten o'clock at night, and 

 allowed each time to take all it wants, f After two or three 

 days it need not be fed so often. 



Some farmers feed from a spoon instead of a nipple — 

 others milk directly from a cow's teat into the mouth of the 

 lamb. By neither mode is the habit and disposition to suok 

 as well preserved — and by both modes, and especially by 

 the last, there is great danger of the milk entering the 

 throat so rapidly that a portion of it will be forced into the 

 lungs. If the strangulation of the weak little aniinal at the 

 time passes unnoticed by the careless "lamber," a rattling 

 sound will soon be heard in the lungs, accompanying each 

 respiration ; and it is a death - rattle. I never knew one to 

 recover. 



A farrow cow's milk is unsuited to young lambs, and it is 

 very difficult to raise them on it. When it must be used, it 

 is generally mixed with a little " sale" molasses, as that made 

 from the cane is familiarly ternied, to distinguish it from 

 domestic or maple molasses, which is not supposed to be 

 equally purgative in its efiects. Others do not mix molasses 

 with the milk, but in lieu of it, administer a teaspoonful of 

 lard- to the lamb every other day. J A farmer of my acquaint- 

 ance who is very successful in raising lambs, feeds in such 

 cases beaten eggs with, or in the place of, milk. This is a 

 highly nutritious food, and he informs me that it is quite as 



* My friend, Mr. Rich, has devised a good substitute by winding cloth around the 

 spout, of a lamp-filler, bo that it will hold the artificial nipple. 



+ Some persons do not allow lambs thus to fill themselves at first. If the lamb is 

 fed soon after birth, and then as often as above recommended, it is decidedly best. 

 But if a lamb has been for some hours deprived of food at birth — or is subsequently 

 kept on very scanty feed — a sudden admission to an imbounded supply is undoubtedly 

 hurtful and dangerous. 



X Some persona mix molasses, and others molasses and water, with new milch 

 cows milk. 1 used to do this, but have come to the conclusiou that it is inexpedient. 



