Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

The first meal of cows milk given to a
lamb should be not more than one-fourth
of gill, which quantity may be gradu-
ally increased to half pint given every
two hours when the lamb is one week
old. This is enough for large healthy
lamb: 8 small delicate one should have
even less.
When very young, lambs are liable to
to be troubled with scours, in which case
the milk should be boiled for one or two
meals. If the opposite tendency is OBJ
served, little white sugar or molasses
put in the milk will generally prove
corrective; when it does not, however, a
teaspoonful of castor oil should be given
in the milk as often as considered neces-
sary. The milk must be perfectly sweet,
as fresh as possible, and slightly warmed,
After two weeks the interval between
feeding should be gradually heightened,
and the quantity of milk increased, as
robust lamb at the age of two months
can take with impunity one and a half
plnts three times a day, and when three
months old this quantity twice day is
sufficient. When the lamb is q few
weeks old, if milk is scarce, half the
quantity advised may be given, mixed
with the same amount Of we'll cooked
cruel made of fine corn meal or oat meal;
and when this is done, IN order to keep
the lambs digestion in good order, add
to its food a teaspoonful of tiaxseed jelly
once daily. The jelly is made by boiling
/ faxseed IN eight times its bulk of water
for twenty minutes.
RI &c uarv cold whom tho
lamb is brought in, we keep it for few
| days in box in the back kitchen, where
big wood fire burns day and night.
Here 1t lies and sleeps on the clean straw
! covered with an old blanket, only awak-
| ening at its regular feeding times, when
it begins a piteous and plaintive bleat
that stops only when its hunger is APP
peased. 1t is not long, though, before
the little fellow learns to jump out of his
box and then he goes frisking about,
poking his inquisitive little nose into
everything, searching for something to
eat. Then, lest he runs into the fire, /
bright sunny days to the garden where
he soon learns to nibble the rose bushes
and tender shrubs in the dainty manner
peculiar to sheep. This is one trouble
with pet lambs, they begin to eat en-
tirely too early, filing their stomachs
with food they cannot digest. To obviate
this to some extent, we continue to feed
the lambs milk oftener and for a longer
period than would otherwise be absO-
lutely necessary. They are greedy little
animals, and when allowed to come about
the yard and kitchen rapidly acquire q
taste for all sorts of things.
When l first began raising pet lambs,
I used to feed them from the bottle,
which was great deal of trouble; now
use the bottle and rubber only for a few
DAYS at first, and then l teach the lamb
to drink by pouring the milk into a
shallow pan and letting the lamb take
one finger in its mouth, slowly miners
ing my hand IN the milk until it is able
to draw a little into its mouth. At first
the little fellow is sure that he gets the
milk from the end of my finger, but he
soon learns better, and dispensing with
my finger altogether, he plunges his
eager mouth down into the pan of milk,
and after lunging about awhile, feeling
for something to take hold of, and halt
strangling himself, he settles down tc
business, and the milk disappears in a
marvelously short space Of time. l dc
not know that there is any real profit in
raising lambs by hand. The milk they
consume, and the time required for car
inc for them are doubtless worth more
than the lambs themselves; still, rather
than see them die, we always take then
for pets. They make the most gentle
and most interesting pets in the world
aud we soon become SO attached to then
that the work of attending to them be
comes a pleasure. They are grateful too
and repay our care with such quick
interest, grow SO fast and keep SO healthy,
that it seems but a little while that they
need feeding so often.-America" Agri
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