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posts. Paint the inside thoroughly, and you will have a 

 water-tight box. You can nail quarter-round in the corners 

 if necessary, but ours has none, and does not leak, and has 

 been in use for three years. I like the dipping-vat 8 feet long, 

 so as to allow an incline for sheep to walk out on. They 

 will climb out with little assistance if so arranged. We have 

 a small tackle hung near the exit end of the vat, so that in 

 handling very heavy sheep we have a saddle girth, with ring 

 on each end, which we put under the sheep behind the fore- 

 legs, hook the tackle into the rings, and one man will easily 

 lift a 300 pound sheep, but we seldom use the tackle, as the 

 sheep naturally walk out with little assistance, and 300 pound 

 sheep are very scarce with us. We have not succeeded in 

 raising many of that kind. We let the vat into the ground 

 two feet, so the top stands two feet above the surface. Bore 

 an inch hole in bottom to drain off liquid one inch so that 

 it may be stopped with a corn cob; bury an old box or barrel 

 .a short distance from the vat, and make a drain from the 

 hole in the vat to it, and there will be no danger of chickens 

 or other stock drinking it. 



In Fig. 3 I have tried to give an inside view of the vat, 

 and in Fig. 4 a side elevation before being let into the 

 ground or floor. From the exit end of the vat, extends the 

 draining table, which should be about 4 feet wide and of any 

 desired length, with the outer end elevated so as to drain 

 back into the vat with a strainer to catch any filth that might 

 accumulate on the table. 



I will endeavor to illustrate in Figs. 5 and 6 how to build 

 the draining-table. Use for sills 2x6 inch at intervals of 2 

 feet to nail the floor to. Say you make the first section 14 

 feet; you can let the next lap on the first and extend as far 



