He  generally  uses  my  ram,  and  this  spring  his  sheep  were  all  clean  without  any
docking  at  all.  They  did  not  dock  them  at  all  when  they  sheared  them.  I  took
the  wool  to  market  along  with  my  own,  and  they  did  not  pull  off  a  pound  and
throw  it  away.  I  had  one  sheep  that  came  after  we  sheared  last  year,  and  I  never
cut  off  its  tail  at  all.    Do  you  think  that  sheep  kept  clean  or  got  dirty.
Mr,  Forsythe,    It  is  a  good  deal  owing  to  what  kind  of  a  wooled  sheep  it  was.
Mr,  Thraaher.  The  same  kind  as  the  other.  I  heard  about  this  theory  that  Mr.
Dungan  has  to-day  expressed  by  Mr.  McDonald  in  a  paper  that  he  read.  He  said
if  you  left  considerable  of  the  tail  it  would  shake  the  manure  all  off.  It  was
lambed  out  in  the  pasture  and  paid  no  attention  to  at  all.  I  began  to  think  along
this  spring  that  McDonald's  theory  was  true,  and  that  it  would  be  demonstrated  in
this  long-tailed  lamb.  It  kept  clean  longer  than  a  great  many  of  them.  I  thought
it  was  going  through  until  it  was  sheared,  and  be  clean,  but  after  awhile  it  got  as
bad  as  any  of  them,  and  a  little  worse,  I  thought,  because  the  tail  helped  daub  up


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down  below.    That  theory  did  not  suit  me.    I  was  in  hopes  some  one  had  experi-
mented enough  to  find  out  a  reason  and  a  remedy  for  it.
