Show practical farmers dock lambs to prevent filth A number of farmers seem to be unable to fathom the reason tor for docking young lambs lamba and quite a few questions have been asked G P williams sheep field agent for the north carolina slate college and department of agriculture as to the need for this practice sir mr williams says that most of the farmers who ask this question have never cut the talla tails from their lambs and cant understand why it should be done lie he explains however that the docking of lambs was not started by any experiment station or agricultural college before any agricultural college was ever established lie says practical farmers docked their lambs to keep them free from filth and from soiling the wool whenever sheep are raised now in a comme commercial refal way the lambs lamba are always locked docked to prevent their accumulating this filth and becoming untidy sir mr williams states that the tall of a sheep servos serves no practical purpose anyway and that the wool from the tall Is of an inferior quality and has a largo large percentage of worthless hair mixed up with the commercial fiber when the tall Is cut off at one we week ek of age the lamb hardly notices the netra tion and suffers much less than lie he would could it if allowed to carry around n filthy tall for a number of years |