. The American shepherd : being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases : illustrated with portraits of different breeds, sheep barns, sheds, &c. : with an appendix, embracing upwards of twenty letters from eminent wool-growers and sheep-fatteners of different states, detailing their respective modes of management . Sheep; Sheep. SUMMER MANAGEMENT. 175 . After the testicles are removed, the operator grasps the tail of the lamb and severs it about one inch from the root. Here the writer may be again condemned for cutting off ap- parently too much of the tail, it
. The American shepherd : being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases : illustrated with portraits of different breeds, sheep barns, sheds, &c. : with an appendix, embracing upwards of twenty letters from eminent wool-growers and sheep-fatteners of different states, detailing their respective modes of management . Sheep; Sheep. SUMMER MANAGEMENT. 175 . After the testicles are removed, the operator grasps the tail of the lamb and severs it about one inch from the root. Here the writer may be again condemned for cutting off ap- parently too much of the tail, it being considered a necessary appendage virhich the God of nature has provided [the animal to brush aw^' insects. But the evil consequences of a moderate length of dock, or indeed any at all, he has seen too often manifested, to induce him to swerve froifl his practice ; humanity, indeed, sanctions it. The -sheep which carries a " natural tail," or only half a one, is very certain not to take that care of it, in regard to cleanliness, which it ought; on the contrary, it is often seen with large accumu- lations of du^y|Uached to it, and presenting anything but ^Jut the sheep i^not to be blamed for this, 4omestic aninmls, it can and does void iplying postur^ and a huge tail vfiW not â ' occasions, without an extraordinary â '.cretions of dung are formed, which ^^^^3i^f^^J^SS°^'^y' ^^^ unless a timely discovery is made ' he sheep dies a horrible death. Thus the fof the an^feial is often jeopardized, and therefore is it not Humane to deprive it of so perilous an appendage ? Again, if the old calculation of the farmer be true,: that it takes one (Jfthel of corn to fat a swine's tail, it is a problem to deter- mine, how much feed is requisite to keep in " store order' the undivided tail of a sheep. At the conclusion of the castration and docking, use is made of the ointment alluded to. It is composed of the following ingredients : say one quart of tar, tw
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