TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 491 



opening the top doors and keeping the hottom ones closed. The floor of 

 hay mow is 8 feet from barn floor, so there is great room for fresh air. 

 Sheep need clean dry bedding and plenty of ventilation. With all these 

 doors and windows and a high ceiling, it is a model barn for summer. 

 For winter the top doors and windows admit ample sunshine. On this 

 side of barn at further end upstairs you will see a window and chimney. 

 They are from the shepherd's room which is plastered, painted and fixed 

 up like a house. The stairway from it comes to the barn alley-way. The 

 space, 16 feet square, under his room, instead of being a sheep pen, is his 

 for feed, etc. 



The outside wall of barn is of the best quality of matched drop-siding 

 without knots making it practically air-tight. The barn when full of sheep 

 can never be completely closed without soon becoming too warm. "We be- 

 lieve in a tight barn and then use windows for ventilators. Cracks between 

 the boards are improper ventilators although the way some barns are built 

 would indicate that their owners thought cracks were just right. When a 

 barn is built with best drop-siding and has hay above it can be easily kept 

 warm enough for young lambs in nearly any weather. 



We have used this kind of barns at "Clover Hill" for several seasons 

 and have had no reason to even slightly change them in any way. 



THE SHEPHERD'S WORK. 



The shepherd's work is an endless task and whether he is owner or 

 hired man his thoughts must be centered on the welfare of the flock. If 

 you are the owner and are working with the sheep there is no doubt but 

 that you are deeply interested in the success of the flock but when you 

 hire a shepherd be sure that you get a real one that knows a great deal 

 about sheep. Every day in the year there is something to do and it must 

 be done well. 



When the ewe flock is sorted in the autumn to be Isred to certain rams 

 because you believe they will produce the highest class lambs from such 

 mating you do not want a man who is so careless that the ewes might be 

 bred to any ram just so they get with lamb. It is the good shepherd who 

 plans out what should be done at all times and then combines perseverance 

 with thoughts and brings about everything as planned. NumlDerless flock- 

 masters and shepherds know what should be done but that number would 

 be greatly reduced if it were to be confined to those who put a large por- 

 tion of their good ideas into practice. There is just as much difference in 

 the management of flocks as there is in flocks themselves. Proper caring 

 for a good foundation flock leads on to success but it doesn't matter how 

 good the foundation may be if they are poorly cared for — failure to some 

 extent will be the result. 



The good shepherd is continually thinking about how he can Improve 

 the flock and surrounding conditions. In this way he is also improving 

 himself and his income. Breeding and feeding are his two principal stud- 

 ies and they must always be comljined. In a pure-bred flock he must be 

 conversant on all pedigrees of noted rams and ewes and upon the merits 

 of the leading flocks. This knowledge will enable him to make selections 



