AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 2

AGRICULTU RAL NOTES.

The season is now approaching- wiien ewes should be get into condition for coupling with the ram, and for this purpose both ewes and ram, require to bo in a sound healthy condition, not two Fat, nor yet too lean. Avoid breeding from those washy, delicate ewes that always appear to be either suffering from the scour, or just newly recovered from it, animals of this clas9 can never rear a healthy lamb, and their presence in a flock is productive of more serious consequences than many o c aware of. Lambs should be all weaned by this time, and this, though a seemingly simple operation, is one of the most difficult that a sheep owner is called on to perform, in his relation as manager and general supervisor of the flock, the badly weaned lamb can always be told as an adult sheep, by the quality of tis coat, the hungry glare of its eye, the shape of the abdoman, and the almost entire absence of the constituents that form the healthy bone. To a person understanding the management of sheep in health and disease, there is nothing easier than to point out "the badly weaned lamb," whether as a breeding ewe, a ram, or a wether, and to such a person it is often the reverse of pleasanfc to visit our sales and markets, and see the hundreds of poor immature ewes, offered as breeders, a very fair index of the owner's knowledge of the requirements of one of the most useful and economical of our domestic animals.