. Elementary agriculture . Fig. 23. A prize Southdown ewe. food of sheep, we should do so very gradually. Usu- ally lambs are simply put on pasture during the summer months and sold before it is necessary to house them for the winter. Some Western sheep growers put their lambs on the range to run free from eight to twenty months. Then they are shipped to Eastern farms to be fattened for market. Here they are fed corn, clover, or mixed hay and, per- haps, oats, peas, or barley. The best pastures for

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