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BUILDINGS. 



One can do with a very common and cheap building or he can 

 use a good, warm, convenient building to good advantage. The 

 more expensive buildings are needed in the cold, frozen North, in 

 the South very slight protection against cold is needed but wet is to 

 be guarded against. A safe rule is NEVER to allow the flock to suf- 

 fer a wetting, unless the wool is very short at the time. It is a very 

 depressing thing to a sheep to carry about a wet fleece, and unfor- 

 tunately not all or many sheep know enough to come in out of the 

 rain. The illustration of the barn at Woodland Farm (page 10) 

 shows one type well adapted to a Southern situation. The barn is 

 36 feet square, 18 feet to the eaves, with a half-pitch roof and an 

 open center. The lower story is 8 feet in the clear and divided by 

 means of racks into compartments as desired. It will be seen that 

 it is light and airy and cool in summer and when the doors are let 

 down it is fairly warm in winter. This barn cost to build less than 

 $200.00 with a good shingle roof, no floor but natural earth below 

 and rough flooring for the mow. It accommodates fairly well about 

 75 ewes and their lambs. The hay is taken in from the end and the 

 open dorway is turned to the south-east so that little or no storm 

 ever blows in. It could easily be closed, however. 



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PLAN OF BARN AT FILLMORE FARMS. 



