726 STARK COUNTY, OHIO. 



flock averaging from four hundred to five hundred. The ewes, 

 when in good condition, weigh from eighty to one hundred 

 and twenty pounds. I raise and sell largely for stock breeding 

 purposes, those weighing from one hundred to one hundred and 

 seventy-five pounds. The whole flock produces, on an average, 

 from five to six pounds of XX to XXX brook washed wool, of 

 good staple, and free from gum. As the grade is noted for its 

 evenness, length and fineness of staple, as well as quality, this 

 makes one of the best flocks in the State, and it is the only 

 remaining thorough-bred flock of that part of the Col. Hum- 

 phrey's importation of 1802. 



SHEEP BAEN. 



My plan for a barn for sheep is as follows : I built one 

 sixty by thirty-two feet ground plan, for three hundred sheep, 

 with single racks on the sides, and two rows of double racks, 

 so placed lengthwise as to divide the whole barn into three 

 stables of equal size, and wide doors at each end of each stable. 

 The double racks are made by using two-inch planks, fourteen 

 inches wide, twelve feet long, and I nail on the sides a four 

 inch board, making a trough two inches deep, as in 6ut No. 1. 



FlGUKB 1.— EudView. 



To divide the trough, I take four-inch boards twelve feet 

 long, and place them in the form of an inverted V, as in figure 

 2, nailing all securely together. 



Figure 2.— End View. 



To make the rack, I bore half-inch holes, three inches 

 apart, along the rack, in the boards making the inverted V. I 

 fill with rungs twelve inches long, and cap with a board one 

 foot wide, with holes bored in the lower edge to fit the rungs, 

 as in figure 3. I cap the ends well by nailing a plank on each 



