Show water and salt needed for health of sheep neep keep plenty of fresh water and salt before your sheep at all times and provide shade in hot weather it la Is not essential that your barn be so very warm except at lambing time but it Is very tery necessary that they be kept and pastured in a dry place always avoid using a scrub ram the saying that the ram Is halt half tile the lock flock la Is very true so it if a scrub Is used no improvement can be expected in the lambs it if the industry Is to improve the scrub must be eliminated flocks of interior breedl breeding ng demand much more care and feed than a well bred flock and the shepherd finds no enjoyment in caring for this type of stuff when he could with the same amount of feed and care be raising a much better grade of stock so in every case where possible secure the services of a purebred pure bred ram and even the most biased observer will agree that the results are surprisingly favorable vo rable 1 |