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are feeding, of some easily digested and nutritive material, such 
as corn or cake ; or the animals may be removed to land of a 
different character, where the natural food is less likely to induce 
this anaemic condition. In the case of young sheep preparing 
for the butcher, in which this condition is disposed to develop 
itself during the spring months, the most readily attainable 
means of arresting it is at once to remove them from the 
situations where they have been confined, consuming the roots 
on the land where they were grown, to some good seeds or 
Toung pasture. Even when this latter system is adopted, it 
will always be found advantageous to give some artificial food. 
A few oats and bran, or a little linseed-cake, serves the purpose 
well. In some instances, the addition to these foods of common 
salt, and some preparation of iron, as the sulphate or carbonate, 
seems to be attended with good results, particularly when the 
I disease has not made too much progress. In individual cases, 
a more careful attention to medicinal agents, and the employ- 
ment of bitter tonics and salines alternated with the iron salts, 
will produce good results. 
V\ here prevention is the object rather than cure, the same 
indications relative to diet require to be attended to. With 
joung fattening sheep it is economical in every sense to employ 
roots only as auxiliary feeding-materials, instead of the sole 
article of diet. By thus supplying the requisite materials for 
tissue-growth, we not only attain our end more readily, viz. the 
rapid fattening of the animals, but we render them less liable to 
disease. With breeding-ewes many stock-owners are misled, 
and ultimately suffer much loss from not carefully considering 
the condition of their dietarv durins the winter months, and its 
relations to the health of both mother and offspring. It is no 
doubt true that, immediately succeeding conception, breeding- 
I ewes may be profitably maintained on a somewhat less full diet 
j than either preceding this period, or during the latter half of 
I gestation. Presuming too much upon this well-known fact of 
j the disposition generally shown to thrive, following conception, 
1 the lowering process is frequently carried too far, and injury is 
I done which no amount of after-kindness can counteract. It is 
succeeding the first half of the period of gestation that par- 
ticular attention to the regulation of the dietary is called for. 
I At this period the foetus is of such magnitude, that the 
demands upon the ewe for an additional supply of nutriment 
urgently call for a more liberal dietary. This is more par- 
ticularly the case where these animals have been stimulated at 
conception so that a large proportion of twins is the result. 
Neither the full and fresh pastures of our rich arable lands 
grown during autumn and winter, nor yet an unlimited supply 
