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Method of Soiling. — One ought to liave barns or 

 sheds well adapted to the practice and more or less 

 dry straw is needed. If he has airy sheds that he 

 can drive through with wagon or cart, arranged 

 with racks on either side in which he will place his 

 green alfalfa or other forage, a flock can be fed in 

 very few minutes. A man with mower, rake and 

 team would easily feed and care for 1,000 sheep. A 

 lesser number would be a little more costly to feed, 

 certainly. When one has a flock of pure-bred ewes 

 and wishes to grow the best of lambs he had better 

 try this soiling system, with a little dry hay and 

 grain in addition to what alfalfa they wish. It is 

 a joy to see such lambs as will grow up under such 

 a system. It has been often tried on Woodland Farm. 



Keep Sheep from Small Pastures. — It must be 

 borne in mind when soiling sheep for prevention of 

 parasites that they ought to have no run to grass. 

 There should be an absolutely clean lot, with no 

 weeds, no grass; then the airy, cool shed, the 

 feed racks, the water and salt. If there is a small 

 grass lot on which they also run it is certain that 

 they will pick up myriads of parasites there and then 

 the owner will say in disgust, "Soiling sheep will 

 not keep them healthy. " It will keep them in health, 

 if they cannot get the parasites from the vegetation 

 springing up from where their droppings have been 

 deposited at some former time. Lambs kept in 

 yards absolutely clean, fed on soiling crops, grain 

 and hay,- will be as big at six months old as they 



