CHAPTER XIX. 



WINTER MANAGEMENT. 



WINTER SHELTER TEMPORARY SHEDS HAY BARNS WITH 



OPEN SHEDS SHEEP BARNS OR STABLES CLEANING OUT 



STABLES IN WINTER YARDS LITTERING YARDS CON- 

 FINING SHEEP IN YARDS AND TO DRY FEED. 



WINTER SHELTER. It has already been assumed that a 

 degree of winter shelter is requisite for the most profitable 

 management of sheep in all parts of the United States. The 

 Merino can withstand far greater exposures to extremes and 

 to rapid fluctuations of weather, than any other improved 

 or really valuable breed. In Spain it was unsheltered. In 

 Western Texas in that magnificent sheep-growing region 

 which lies immediately north of San Antonio it has been 

 claimed that it requires no shelter ; but facts- which I shall 

 allude to hereafter incontestibly prove the contrary. 



SHED OF POLES. 



TEMPORARY SHEDS. Adequate shelter in warm regions 

 like Western Texas, demands no arrangements which would 

 be at all expensive in a well-wooded region, or where sawed 

 timber could be obtained at moderate prices for the 

 cheapest form of open shed (i. e., open on one side,) would 

 answer the purpose. Or, excellent sheds might be constructed 

 with logs or poles. The pole shed is made as shown above. 



