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pound the second week, and so on. At the end of the 
fourth week the animals should be cleaning up a pound 
or more of grain each day. By the end of two months 
a daily allowance of one and one-half or two pounds may 
be fed. It is seldom advisable to feed more than two 
SHEEP IN YARDS BEING FATTENED 
pounds of grain a head daily. The good shepherd watches 
his sheep and observes the first indication of bad appe- 
tite. When noticed, he corrects the trouble at once. 
13. Green crops for roughage.—Sheep are most at home 
in pasture fields. They not only feed on the tender grass 
blades, but they strip weeds and other foul plants of their 
leaves and branches. They are in truth the plant scav- 
engers of the farm. But kept on the same land in the 
same field year after year without change, the pastures 
become foul, disease lurks in the soil and dangerous para- 
sites accumulate. For these reasons sheep should be 
