ABSTRACT
Human beings, of course, have only two, located on the breast. Dogs and cats and other mammals that have a litter at birth have many nipples, located in pairs all along the belly. Since the year 1890, the nipples of several thousand sheep on the island of Cape Breton have been examined, with the discovery that three-nippled, four-nippled and even five-nippled sheep are by no means uncommon. In order to favor the production of twins it is therefore necessary, or at least advisable, that the ewes should be in prime physical condition at the time of mating. A better, and certainly more economical plan, affecting the condition of nutrition in the same way, would be simply to mate in October when the pasture is at its best, and then give hay alone for winter feeding. In order to raise twins and triplets successfully the lambs should be small at birth, and grow large afterwards.
