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PROGRESS OF THE LAMBS Windbreaks along fences which will afford shelter from prevailing winds, or hurdles thatched with brush, straw or split-open manure sacks should be prepared now in anticipation of earl? lambs These will make a vast difference to the rate at which the lambs will grow and fatten, and will also save many a lamb from death. Salt lick boxes should be kept full throughout the winter and the ewes encouraged to patronise these, if they have not been familiarised with tlieni through usage in the past. Hoggets should bo drenched at regular intervals to suppress worm infection. Recent experiments indicate that a bluestone-nicotino mixture is more effective than bluestone-mustard. The proportions in which this should be mixed are:—Water, five gallons; bluestone, lib.; "black-leaf forty," lib Give doses onp-half to one fluid ounce to lambs and hoggets, according to age Hoggets should also now bo crutched in most instances, and should then be kept on the shortest and cleanest pasture available.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22413, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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