IMPORTANT TO STOCKMASTER

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 33, 30 May 1876, Page 2

IMPORTANT TO STOCKMASTER

It lias been always a difficulty a ewe dies in lambing to get talce 'her lambs. Hubbing the foster child with the skin of the iil<H foster mother's dead lamb has been mended, but more often than not doiH succeed. The following is so simple iH that it should be considered a worth storing up in the memory of iH

sheepowner in Waikato ties of next lambing season. We from the " Tasmanian '' :—" A agriculturist lias, for some years, a plan of inducing foster-mothers his valuable stock of Lincolns to spring not their own without trouble to the shepherds. The was first published in an American and is simply this —to rub hand full of gin on the the dam ; rub a little out of bottle along the back of the young to be adopted, place-thorn together, H the relationship is complete in stance. Tiie valuable advantages ofH simple process will be apparent to who have to do duly with long-wool where, as is so frequently the case, aH dies, and leaves perhaps a pair of H lambs, while probably another ewe lfl her lamb, when exchange of matiS affection is instantly brought about b;H gin, to the saving and successful reiH of what otherwise would be two trouH some pests at best. Mr. Dedery's stH man, at Como, has this season applied® charm to a cart-mare —with a two-moM foal at foot —who, without stispiciaM foul play, on applying the same treaiiM mothered a twenty-four hours' foal) H went off with tlie pair evidently rfeligH to find herself with twins, notwitlistoW the discrepancy of size in the couplet ® rather remarkable. The motherless J is by Velocity out of Daphne. The ifl Daphne died shortly after foaling. ■ wqa.,®- favourite thoroughbred man* much valued for foaling that she hadfl viously visited Victoria to meet ■ "Whither, and had also been to Leo. ■ saving of the foal by the gin spell wIB some consolation for the loss of the m>l