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sheep good enough for the market also have fat, thick tails. After 

 becoming well acquainted with the quality of flesh and you are con- 

 vinced some of them will do, then you may sort them off by hand. 



Cutting Chute 



It is much easier, however, to obtain a few pieces of carpenter's 

 chalk, and as fast as a lamb is found to be fat, put a small chalk mark 

 on his head or across his back; or chalk the ones which are not fat. 

 Build a cutting chute in front of a small gate, so in swinging the gate, 

 sheep coming towards it may be cut in or out. This is generally easy to 

 accomplish, and often a temporary chute can be built by arranging loose 

 gates or feed troughs. Sheep always run better if they are driven 

 towards an opening, or the light. 



Flock Must Receive Kind Treatment 



If a stockman must get angry, he should do it out in the field some- 

 where all alone, where he can throw mud to his heart's content and 

 not hurt anything but himself. To become angry at a dumb animal is 

 really very foolish. Whenever I drive by a farm and see sleek, well 

 kept stock everywhere, I say to myself, a fine, even tempered man lives 

 there, for an angry, high tempered man and fat well kept stock posi- 

 tively do not go together. 



Native L.ambs That Have Been Docked and Castrated and are Fat, Ready for the Market 



