The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
INTERESTING FARM TALKS.
BEING A LAMB AND HOW 1T BEHAVES.
Live stock-Flower Garden and Lawn
Orchard and Fruit-Farm and Garden
Notes-Hints TO neutrality-suspicious.
Valuable Recipes, Etc.

ABOUT uNl3 dllci tic ldillO 10
born he is on his feet, says the Montana
HOOE- Grpcr. The unsteady earth under
him now heaves to the right; surges up
and then down, and it whirls and it twirls
with him while he staggers and struggles,
and twists one leg around the other like
vine around a tree; or else he spreads
those members all out until they look
like the forks under weather vane.
He tumbes down for the fiftieth time, and
for the fiftieth time renews the fight to Sc
cure that footing in the great world from
which only can he reach the life-giving
milk His mother--particularly il it is
her frst-in her crazy anxiety to help,
knocks him down, steps on him, and does
without leaving olt possible exception
everything she should not do, while she
leaves nearly everything undone that
might help the little fellow TO get the de-
sired nourishment
ooh, the poor. d,Rr little thing isn't IL
too bad" says the sympathetic stranger.
"The COMPOUNDED pair of idiotsl" frets the
impatient shepherd, who does not care 10
drive them until the lamb finds milk and
gets filled up"
In half an hour his milk-can is full his
sides bulge out with a surieit Of the pure
article warranted 10 stand the most rigid
test for admixture OF water And az the
shepherd slowly urges the old eve toward
home, the lamb goes Keeling and rolling
along like an old tar just ashore from
years voyage
About the first e rror the lamb makes in
life is 10 mistake the shepherd or his dog
for It's mother, and many are the man@uv-
res that must be gone through with %
make the new arrival follow the right
party. His next error is likely 20 be an
attempt To walk on air when he comes 10 "a
place where he shosild 90 down hill. His
ten minutes experience in life has made
him believe that an tho earth is n level
plain, and i'm broad daylight he steps off
the top OF hill inst as serenely MS man
steps off the top landing of the stairs in
total darkness when he is certain that the
stairs are vet twenty feet away. The re-
suit is a great surprise to man and lamb in
each instance.
The lamb picks himself up, and coutin-
ues down the bill; he soon comes 10 the
conc usion that everything is down hill in
| this life, and not on n dead level. Upon
getting 70 the foot of tise hill he still tries
TO continue downward, and as a result
runs his nose into the ground and looks
surprised again. lie now COMES 10 place
TO get up hill, and goes up just as our man
| starts 10 90 up stairs in total darkness
when he thinks the stairs are still twenty
feet away.
Our lamb is now getting very suspicious.
| He was pushed over and grdwled at for
following the dog when he Thought il was
| his mother; the shepherd kicked and
abused him for following him : he tumbled
| down hill when he saw nothing unusual
| in the looks OF the ground, and up hill
/ again under similar circumstances. In
| this frame of mind he comes 10 n shadow
cast by a neighboring hill This is the
most appalling thing he has yet seen in
! life. He stands in the bright sunshine
| twelve inches ahead OF him all the world
| is black. How shall he get over that ter
rible line? II must be worse than going
down hill, or mp hill, or running after
| dog that growls or n man that kicks. II
surely looks much more frightful than any
OF these things. His mother is in the
| shadow, and coaxes him 10 come along;
but he will not risk it--be stands on the
| edge and bawls at the top OF his powers.
! The shepherd with his hig foot comes To
the rescue, and our poor lamb is lifted
| from sunlight TO shadow GA the end of q
/ No q boot.
lie trots along after his mother for few
| yards and meets new difficulty. This
time it is from shadow TO sunlight. Ii
looks tough; the situation seems 10 pre-
sent no end of difficulties. He walks
across the line with fear and trembling.
only TO find it very simple and easy, and
concludes that things are not so bad az
they look. lie has already begun TO find
out that things which seem easy in life
lead often 10 disaster. and forbidding
things often present no real danger.
At this time he is about one hour old !:
for whole hour ne has been running his
respirative, circulative and locomotive
powers as an Independent being and has
| become quite lamb. Just at that instant
a carriage drives rapidly along the road.
His quick eye sees it; he thinks perhaps
it is his mother, and that she is running
from danger. He strikes out after il. 1t is
wonderful what an hour has done for him
in the way of developments he runs
faster than the shepherd, faster than his
mother, and Is in imminent danger Of
getting under the horses feet or the
wheels OF the carriage.
II is here that the dog comes in play, il
he understand his business. He runs up
alongside OF the lamb, pushes it over with
his nose, jumps upon il and holds it down
upon the ground with his nose until the
shepherd comes up. The shepherd takes
the lamb and stands il upon It's feet so that
it can see its mother, who has come up to
within few feet. He holds it until il
sees its mother on move and then lets ii
go. The old eve ticks off the face of
sadder and wiser lamb--lets him have an
other dose of liquid nourisbment, and to-
gether they get home.
There is only one thing that is 500 times
as funny and provoking by turns as
lamb, and that is 500 lambs together hen
they are about a month old. The shep-
herd sits down and watches the 800 lambs
all in a bunch by themselves, PLAYING.
running and frolicking, and he laughs
When he has tried, and tried in vain, to
get the same 500 across a bridge or into a
corral he sits down again, but he does not
laugh this times.
A young lamb has no way of telling
which eve is its mother and the mother
only knows which lamb is her own by the
scent. Hence, while very young it is a
bad plan TO have too many together, for
the eve may be confused by so many
lambs, or become partially indifferent, and
the lamb perish for want of care When
few weeks old, however, they know each
other by the sound of the voice. In a
band OF 1000 or 5000 ewes, eve may call
her lamb, and the lamb will answer from