. The domestic sheep : its culture and general management. Sheep. 313 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. judgment, stands and shifts the gate, shunting the ewes and thin sheep into one pen, theprime muttons into another. Tliis sorting pen is so useful a thing that 1 thinli best to show a sketch of it here. Most sheep farmers need one. The lane umst be narrow enough to compel single file, as the sheep go in, sixteen inches is about right, and the lane should be ten feet long at the least, twenty feet is bet- ter, and the gate closed or opened switches the approaching sheep into either apartment as S
. The domestic sheep : its culture and general management. Sheep. 313 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. judgment, stands and shifts the gate, shunting the ewes and thin sheep into one pen, theprime muttons into another. Tliis sorting pen is so useful a thing that 1 thinli best to show a sketch of it here. Most sheep farmers need one. The lane umst be narrow enough to compel single file, as the sheep go in, sixteen inches is about right, and the lane should be ten feet long at the least, twenty feet is bet- ter, and the gate closed or opened switches the approaching sheep into either apartment as SORTING PEN. This pen of western lambs interests us. They have the tell-tale smutty faces indicating the Shrop cross. We would like them to feed, so healthy and lively and growthy they seem, but Swift's buyer bids above the nickle and we leave them to him. Here is a small lot of native lambs. They seem nearly full-blooded Shrops. Note the shrunken fleece, lack-lustre eyes and languid movements. These mean that parasites have struck them. Everywhere I go the evidence piles up before me itbat the parasite has the eastern sheepman in his grip. What are we going to do about it? We will do some- thing, depend upon it. Here are some native ewes, good ones, nearly pure- blooded ghrops. They, too, are infested, as is plain to be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. Chicago : American Sheep Breeder Press
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