Show BUSY DAYS IN THE SHEEP PEN The lambing season aea On Is la now here and am tho the shepherd who loves loe his hll sheep and andis andis u d dJs is Js in tho the business for profit can call no hour day da or night nl ht his iti own until all nil the lambs lambe have been lIeen dropped and have been properly cared for This Is particularly truo true of a large Jargo thick flock but oven even on the average farm tarm where n a dozen doell Or two of owes oweN are aro kept of lambs Is almost certain to occur unless greatest Care caro Is taken to pro provide pr prIde vine vide Ide the owes with warm comfortable i quarters and proper feed at the crit erie critical critIcal ical time The Tue Th ewes should be separated from Crom I the main heck flock and If I each owe could have hac a i t little pen for or her own so much the better By Hr this thin arrangement the thc shepherd cun can look after art r each j ch owe much hotter than If IC they the are arc allowed to run with the flock In the case cot of oC twins t the tho ewe fre frequently clings to one on and rejects the theother theother theother other and this his Is frequently the stronger stron cl one If Jr the weakling 61 It II nO does docs not get rt his hI sup supply ply ri pi of o milk the tINe shepherd must mUNt assist him to do 10 80 so and It Il Is often ofton al alto to catch the thC ewe and hold her while the tho lamb Jamb suckles Often Oell a II ewe will refuse her lamb even ten though thou h It Is 18 a single one and sho she must then be shut up with the lamb lambor for or days dt and she must hn ho held lucid while the tho lamb Iamb suckles and arid until she h owns It Sometimes the ewe dies in giving birth to tho lamb and It Is then necessary necessary necessary sary to have some somo other oIlier ot hal ewe etc adopt It antI and if this Is I not possible It must bo brought up by b hand on cows milk This Is a lot of o trouble but it pays If Jr your lambs arc are thoroughbred At first the tho milk must mU l bo be b slightly warmed and the lumb lamb should be IcU feel at lent least a J dozen times a day The feedings tM can cati be gradually reduced until the lamb to drink when then it may ma be he fed red four or em five limes times a n day Un da The rho rh great Teut loss of lambs on the tIme aver average average age e farm f rm comes from exposure during the night nigIL Lambs J arc re dropped In ex cx exposed exposed posed places and quickly become chilled and unless c the thC ewes are arc con confined confined fined In comfortable quarters or 01 In single pens IOns the lh Ah must spend much of 01 o the thc night nl ht with his flock to prevent such accident A chilled lamb cnn can be he quickly dried by b placing It in a t pall of or water nearly as hot as a the hand can hear bear sousing him all ull over just J st leaving his nostrils exposed ex cx posed anti and nothing morn more If the lamb lambIs Is very er 01 badly chilled pour off oft the water and till the t 1 bucket again a As soon HOOn ar as 11 ho hc h revives rub dry dr with witha Ilha a cloth feed eed him some warm cows COA milk and in an tn hour or so o he will be all allright allright right and may be put back with his hie mother |