TREATING LAMBS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 21, 26 August 1882, Page 3

TREATING LAMBS.

I Of the growing custom of treating; lambs as early as the season and j weather will allow, an ExchfuiL I1 '' -ay : j- I hose who luive adopte-'- the system , find it better to go on with cutting j I about every three weeks or month durS ing the lambing- season rather than j wait until lambing is finished. By ! waiting so loni* 't is found that many | of the lambs are too old and others too j young. The lambs should be operated j t upon when about a month old, and the [ cutting time should be ordered so as . to get them as nenrly as possible i about that age. 'We would also stro/ig-ly recommend the adoption of ' the slitting system as opposed to the [ antique and dangerous plan of lopping ' off a square piece from the end of the purse. By the system we advocate the purse is taken in the fingers of the ' 'eft hand, the knife is then forced through it and drawn upwards, cutting it into two parts. The several parts, after the removal of the testes, at. once falls together again, and there is nothing to prevent immediate healing; but in the old system 'he portion of the skin cut off and thrown away has to be replaced by a new growth, and »hile this is going on the lamb in many instances dies of cold, over--bleed ng, attacks of insects, or inflammation Those who have not yet adopted the slitting plan only require to give it a trial to be convinced of its superiority over the other by the decrease that takes place in the percentage of losses by death — Otago Witness.