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salt ns often as once a week, and it will do them no hurt to feed about 
an ounce of sulphur to an hundred monthly. To ewes in lamb it is 
thought by many not advisable to feed it. Another thing very essential 
to the health and comfort of sheep, is to furnish them with high and 
dry places to sleep nights, and shelter in hot weather. No animal is so 
sensitive to the bad effects of a damp atmosphere as the sheep, and they 
particularly shun all low and damp places for their lairs or sleeping- 
grounds. Another precaution, which is equally important both in sum¬ 
mer and winter, and that is, not to keep too many in a flock. If they 
have a wide range, and are Merinos and Saxons, from one hundred to 
three hundred may do for summer, provided they are of equal strength; 
but weak and strong ones should not be permitted to herd together. 
My own experience has been to keep the ages as separate as possible. 
Thus my lambs are weaned and wintered alone; my yearlings are kept 
separate summer and Avinter; my two years old the same. Older than 
two I let run together, only selecting out, from time to time, the weaker 
ones, and putting them by themselves, or with a younger flock. A little 
attention to the habits of the sheep will soon learn the farmer what they 
desire for their health in his location. But care, care , cahe! Look to 
them often. Take care of your sheep, and they will take care of you. 
Coarse-wooled sheep should be kept in very small flocks. I refer to 
the long-wooled kinds. And above all, they should not be permitted to 
run with other kinds. They require a much larger amount of food 
than a fine-wooled sheep, and must therefore have a wider range of ter¬ 
ritory to gather it from. 
If the grass fail in the autumn, before it is time to go into winter 
quarters, it will be important to have a supply of other food. A little 
grain then is worth more than at any other time in the year. Indeed, 
as soon as the nights begin to be frosty, it will pay well to begin with a 
light feed of corn or oats. A peck of shelled corn to one hundred daily 
would be of more real service than double that amount later. Where 
corn can be so easily raised as in the West, it is one of the best and 
cheapest kinds of grain that the wool-grower can have. 
WINTER MANAGEMENT. 
If the sheep have been well summered, they are half wintered. But 
if they come to the yard thin and weak, the careless owner may mak® 
