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while the other side is draining. When the second side 

 is filled, the first side has sufficiently drained so that they 

 can be turned out. When poisonous dips are used, the 

 sheep need to be well drained before they are turned out 

 to pasture, to avoid poisoning the grass. However, this 

 danger is not as great as one might think, and if the sheep 

 are not too closely confined, the amount of arsenic they 

 would consume while eating grass is not sufficient to 

 harm them. Some shepherds use the arsenic dip in 

 minute quantities for treating lambs for stomach worms, 

 but there is a possible danger even in this. 



Dodging chute. 



Farmers having small flocks separate them by "legging 

 out" the sheep, as they call it. This is a very bad practice 

 and should not be continued. A little money invested 

 in a dodging chute sa^"es much time and labor as well as 

 injury to the sheep. There is absolutely no better way of 

 separating lambs from their ewes than by running the 

 flock through the dodging chute. One might think that 

 the matter of separating lambs from the ewes would be 

 simple and that all that would be necessary would be to 

 catch the lambs and lift them over the panels into a 

 second pen. Experience shows that such a practice very 

 often results in some lame lambs. Lambs at weaning 

 time are very tender, and injuries of this sort mean the 

 loss of the lamb. A dodging chute consists of a long 

 narrow chute at the end of which is a swinging gate which 

 opens into two pens. The main essential of a dodging 

 chute is length. The longer the chute, the better and 

 faster {he sheep will travel through and the greater the 

 opportunity the operator of the dodge gate has to observe 

 his sheep and decide into which pen they go. 



