MANAGEMENT OF LAMBS IN SPRING.

Patea Mail, 4 August 1881, Page 4

MANAGEMENT OF LAMBS IN SPRING.

As a rule it is best to begin to wean lambs as soon as they can be tempted to eat—when four or five weeks old. A separate enclosure should be made for them, to which the sheep cannot gain access. This may be an adjoining yard, ami in it place a long trough upon or near the ground, in which bran and oatmeal should be scattered. This practice of feeding the lambs should be continued after the ewes are turned out to pasture, and if they can have the exclusive run of a part of the pasture it is all the better for them. Such an arrangement can be made by having gaps in the fence, which the lambs are not slow to discover and use. A few small gates, or “ lamb creeps” may be made in the fence to let the lambs through, and at the same time entirely prevent the sheep from passing. It should not be overlooked that any extra care given to lambs in early spring will have its influence through all their lives, making them stronger and better. At the same time, good care to the lambs means a relief to their dams, which is an important point in sheep husbandry. 3,320 shares have been taken up in the New Zealand Refrigerating Company formed in Dunedin. , Mr J. S. Caverhill proposes to sow 450 acres of white crop this season—3so acres of wheat, and 150 acres of oats.— Star. Midhat Pasha and others implicated in the murder of the late Sultan of Turkey have been deported to Arabia.