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the day is placed in pen A until she has cleaned, and has 

 given indications of owning or disowning the lamb. As 

 soon as this is accomplished, she is placed in pen 1, or one 

 of the lambing pens marked C, depending on her attitude 

 toward the lamb and on whether she had singles, twins, 

 or triplets. If phe had a single and properly owns it, she 

 goes into pen 1. Thus by night, pen 1 contains ewes 

 with their lambs that were dropped during the preceding 

 twenty-four hours. The next morning this bunch of ewes 

 is moved to pen 2, so as to leave pen 1 vacant for a fresh 

 lot of ewes. Every morning this bunch of ewes is moved 

 until on the fifth day they are in pen 5. On the morn- 

 ing of the sixth day they are ready to leave the shed and 

 go to the adjacent range. All ewes that are stubborn and 

 all ewes having twins, instead of being placed in pen 1 

 are placed in one of the lambing pens marked C, where 

 they are left until there is no doubt as to relationship be- 

 tween the ewe and the lamb. As soon as the proper 

 maternal relationships have been established, the ewe with 

 her lamb or lambs is placed in pen lettered D. Each 

 succeeding day she is moved to the next pen, going from 

 pen D to E, from pen E to F, and F to G, and from G to 

 H, and pen H to 4, from pen 4 to 5, and from pen 5 to 

 the outside. By this arrangement all stubborn ewes and 

 ewes having twins are kept inside seven days after they 

 own their lambs, and all ewes having singles and owning 

 them are kept inside the shed for five days. At the par- 

 ticular shed illustrated, the lambs are dropped at the rate 

 of eighty every twenty-four hours during the busy season. 

 Five men do the work. One is a night-drop picker, one 

 a day-drop picker, and three are shed-men. The duty of 

 the night-drop picker is to watch the band at night and 

 as soon as a lamb is born he puts the lamb and its mother 



