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Title: Sheep, breeds and management
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wrightson, John
Subjects: Sheep
Publisher: London, Vinton
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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or service at the same age. It is well, however,to point out that the difference between the management of alot of lambs upon a Yorkshire fell or Northumberland hillsidefarm is very different from the system pursued upon a Hamp-shire farm with its double cropping of fodder crops and roots,and its diversity of foods for each month of the summer. Onthese farms the lambs frequently are indulged with three or ORDINARY TREATMENT OF LAMBS. 141 four separate kinds of green food every day, and they oftenspend no more than three or four hours upon one particular fold.Rape, clover heads, cabbages, and vetches, with cut mangels,cake, and corn, constitute their daily fare, and thus growth isextraordinarily rapid. It is no exaggeration to say that duringthe height of the season lambs will increase in live weight atthe rate of one pound a day—an addition which must appearmarvellous, or past belief, to many graziers of sheep. Thefull details of the system must furnish material for the nextchapter.
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LINCOLN RAM HOGGS. 142 SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. CHAPTER XV.EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF LAMBS. I TRUST that those of my readers who have followed the lastchapters upon Sheep and their Management will not judge meharshly if I now proceed to take as my special theme my ownbreed of sheep. It is as lambs that they particularly excel, and I have oftendeclared a Hampshire Down ram lamb, as he appears in thesale-ring at the Market House, or on the Butts, at Salisbury,late in July or in early August, to be one of the wonders of theworld. These lambs are for the most part born between theloth and the 31st of January, and the principal fall is about the2oth of that month. A few are dropped late in December,but this is not thought desirable by ram-breeders, as they arethen apt to have passed their most perfect bloom before theyare disposed of. Nothing, we know, beats a January lamb ;and, if we take January 20th as the day upon which a lambis yeaned, we shall be able to show a record of a dail

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