Excerpt from The Great Neglect in Sheep Husbandry, Failure to Castrate Ram Lambs Intended for Slaughter: Advantages of DockingOne prominent writer on agricultural topics has characterized the failure to castrate male lllllllnl as the great neglm-t in sheep husbandry. There is no doubt that this negligence has been a decided drawback to the progress of the sheep industry in Canada. Farmers who are engaged in raising horses do not for one moment. Contem plate leaving all male offspring entire. Nor do cattlemen forget to castrate hull calves, unless they are intended for breeding purposes. Llog raisers have realized that it is necessary to unsex their grade hours. And mime even deprive the females of their ovaries, in order to insure the st gains in weight. There is no justifiable reason why sheep raisers should he so careless in this regard. Nevertheless, cold facts demon strate that. Unfortunately. Emasculation of grade rams is not practised to the extent it'should be. Why castration should he neglected in this class of live stock is dith cult to understand. Probably the greater doc'ility of the ram compared with the bull or stallion may aliord an explanation. The ram will not break down fences as will the stallion, nor gore attendants to death as the hull. Dire calamatie's always impress people. It should not he necessary. However. For deaths to occur before warnings are heeded. F ortunately for mankind, rams are not so ferocious as hulls. If they were. Imagine the continual danger which would he the result of the number of entire rams which are to be found in every district where sheep are raised.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.