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of them. Amid the intermingling of the offspring of the different ewes he 
will find the advantage of having marked the respective twins, and thus, 
although not always without regularly drawing them off, he will be en- 
abled properly to separate the respective families : he will relieve the 
weakly ewe from a burden which she cannot support; and, on the other 
hand, he will reconcile the deserted little one to its unnatural parent, or 
find a better mother for it. The ewes with theirsingle lambs will not, after 
a few days, require any extraordinary degree of trouble, but those with 
twins must be carefully watched, at least until the lambs begin in good 
earnest to graze. Many a lamb has been stinted in its growth, and 
irreparably injured, by the insufficient supply of milk which the ewe 
with twins can afford. 
Twills. — This is the proper place to speak of the desirableness of hav- 
ing many twins. Most breeders are partial to them, on account of the 
apparent rapid increase of the flock, or the additional quantity of lambs 
that can be prepared for the market. The question depends entirely on 
the quantity of land which the farmer holds, and the nature of the soil. 
If he has pasture enough, and good enough, twins are highly desirable; 
for at only the usual expense before the yeaning time, the number of 
his lambs is doubled, and, the pasture being good and the lambs well 
fed, there will be very little difference in health, condition, or value, be- 
tween the twins and the single lamb. 
The ewe seldom has twins at her first yeaning; and it is fortunate 
that she has not; for it is seldom that she has any great supply of milk 
then, and, consequently, the mother and her offspring would equally 
suffer. The twins are generally obtained from ewes that arc three, 
four, or five years old. The disposition to twinning is undoubtedly 
hereditary. There are certain rams that have the credit of being twin- 
getters, and that faculty usually descends to their offspring ; but this is 
oftener the case with regard to the ewe, agreeably to the old couplet : 
“ Ewes, yearly by twinning, rich masters do make : 
Tho lambs of such twinners for breeders go take." 
The female of every species of animal has far more to do with this un- 
usual multiplication of the offspring than has the male; and the farmer 
who wishes rapidly to increase his stock through the medium of twins, 
may go some way toward the accomplishment of bis object by placing 
his ewes on somewhat better pasture, or allowing them a few turnips 
when November approaches. 
The Management of the Lambs. — We return once more to the lambs, 
now a few days old. The old ewes will prove assiduous and faithful 
nurses, but the young ones will occasionally wander from their lambs, 
and prove inatteutive to or have not recognized their bleatings. Such 
mothers must be separated from the flock, and folded and confined with 
their young ones, until they appear to be disposed faithfully to do their 
duty. Some lambs refuse the attention of the mother, and lie weak or 
sullen, and droop away and die. Some of the mother’s milk should be 
frequently introduced into the mouth ; and, if that has not the desired 
effect, a foster-mother must, if possible, be found ; or the little churl must 
be brought up by the hand. There will, generally speaking, be ve^y 
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