Show Lain tring now is about the time ot of year when the annual wall regarding lambs lamb commences mid and I 1 wish to say to any of your readers ro iders who may hava bavo sheep that disown their offspring 0 that there is a sure cure for it and not patented the cure is to feed the ewe plenty of good hay and grain for at least two months before she lambs if u I 1 owe ewe hits has fat on her adders udders full of wilk milk slit will own her klambt nine mno ty mno times out of a hundred tin and d this remark will hold good oven even with young merinos marinos coming with lamb for the first time where ninny lambs come in the same pen at the sanie same time young ewes frequently get confused and lose their lambs but when at a system of marking arking in each lamb at birth and its mother with the same mark is used and a few stalls are fitted up for hay grain and water where the owe ewe and lamb can be confined apart from the others this difficulty will be overcome when a ewe disowns her lamb it is in most every case because site shu hns hass very little milk till and nature teaches her to look out for number one many people do not realize when a sheep is thin in the winter or spall simply bea because uso of the tha heavy coven covering ng of w wool that covers up sharp angles to some me degree and thin think it nee ceeil 1 much care and feed but can get the principal part of its living as a sort of all around scavenger but the fact is that no animal will so BO quickly and surely repay the thoughtful owner in cash for uia his careful attention and liberal allowance of the best water liay hay and grain and no animal will bo be a poorer invest merit ment than a 11 half starved sheep 1 for one never had bad tiny any trouble i i lambing because my owes were too fat I 1 once had tho the misfortune to fatten for mutton fifty old merino ceimo ewes that had all taken the ram although unknown to me I 1 rinsed forty nine lambs and tho the ewes were about as fat as corn and alfalfa hay could mako make them a at tb b i time they dropped mid and I 1 kept them so until green grass came the lambs growing meantime me ine antima antime full as fast as they would have doue upon grass nature very seldom makes it a mistake and a strong healthy fat ewe will mill guard her lamb as carefully as a mother will her child it if a I 1 man mail cant afford to feed two sheep well let him keep but one J 11 II in american creeder breeder |