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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 she 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 
