28 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
The boy reasoned: “Our practices are wrong. We 
sell off timothy hay and wheat, and thus load by 
load we sell away the fertility of the farm, and what 
we do feed is largely wasted, as we do not get the 
manure. Now if ever we build this farm up we 
must feed on the land the crops that we grow upon 
the land. And if we make any money in feeding 
animals we must feed younger animals than we 
have been feeding. We must feed some sort of 
babies. Now what shall it be?” 
Then he thought of the lamb. ‘Why, here is the 
lamb,” he said. ‘He is a baby, a gentle little fellow. 
One can put him in the barn, can feed him there in 
shelter. His manure will all be saved in good order 
and can go direct to the fields with no wastage, and 
from the feed given him one ought to make good 
gain and thus make money.” He had already a little 
flock of ewes which were his pets and his darlings. 
To them he added now a little bunch of 200 feeding 
lambs, building a shed to hold them. As he had no 
money only what he borrowed, he bought the small- 
est and cheapest lambs that he could find. They 
were natives, fairly healthy, and weighed 55 lbs. 
when he put them in the sheds in November. He 
had carefully dipped them in a half barrel, and had 
himself as thoroughly dipped as the lambs, so they 
were free from ticks. All winter he fed them care- 
fully, every feed with his own hands. Not knowing 
anything about feeding lambs, he had written to 
Prof. E. W. Stewart to get his advice as to how 
they ought to be fed, and he had told him how to 
