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Practical Sheep Husbandry 



to keep the temperature up so one's hand is comfortable in the water. 

 When lamb becomes somewhat lively, rub it dry with a coarse cloth, 

 wrap all but its nose in a blanket or thick cloth, feed it, and place it in 

 a warm place to sleep. Keep it away from its mother no longer than is 

 necessary. It is best to wrap a lamb with cloth, that is to be placed in 

 artificially heated quarters. 



Teaching Ewe to Own Lamb 



If ewe disowns lamb, shepherd must get her to own it. Try smear- 

 ing on her own nose and the rump of the lamb some of her own milk. 

 When the lambs are twins and the ewe disowns one or both, then both 

 lambs should be kept in an adjoining pen where the ewe can see them, 

 and both placed with the mother at the same time, so that in her 

 anxiety to let the one that she owns nurse, she will let the other one 

 nurse also. If ewe with good supply of milk is left without a lamb, 

 she should be employed to nurse one not getting enough milk from its 

 own mother, or to adopt an orphan. Sometimes removing the skin from 

 the dead lamb of the intended mother and placing it on the back of the 

 stranger is effectual ; again to rub the lamb under the ewe's tail does 

 the work. Keeping ewe away from water for a few hours and rubbing 

 the lamb with salt is advocated as effectual. 



Remedy Must Be Found in Cause 



The different remedies advocated to cure through medicine, the 

 various so-called diseases or troubles among young lambs or sheep will 

 receive no consideration from me, inasmuch as the methods pursued by 

 different doctors are so varied and contradictory. I agree with the 

 doctors when their advice is that the least medicine or drugs given 

 the better. Sheep require a variety of feeds, and a strong argument in 

 favor of changing sheep from pasture to pasture is that it gives them 

 a variety, and an opportunity to obtain the food they want. Give your 

 sheep good, clean, wholesome food, pure water, dry sanitary shelter, 

 and if trouble does present itself, find the cause and remove it and the 

 result or disease will vanish in short order. I have every consideration 



for the feelings and beliefs 

 of my f ellowman, and would 

 not advise any man to quit 

 the use of drugs as long as 

 he believes they are benefi- 

 cial and a remedy for dis- 

 ease. I honestly believe 

 that doctors as a whole are 

 honest and high-minded 

 men, but I cannot believe 

 that their drugs have done 

 the sheep business any 

 good. All of my observa- 

 tions, during the years I 



Lamb creep with rollers for uprights have Spent in this busineSS, 



