INDIANA. 



HENRY C. MEREDITH, 



CAMBRIDGE CITY, WAYNE COUNTY. 



Sheep Racks and Troughs. 



Experience has taught me that there are several better 

 plans for sheep racks than the old style with slats nailed, to 

 stringers, which have an open front for hay seed and other lit- 

 ter to get into the wool. I have several different kinds, the 

 two best of which I will describe. 



The first I made in a very simple way, and it can be put 

 up by any one. I take two by four scantling, and cut into 

 pieces two and a half feet long, which are placed upright 

 eighteen inches from the wall on the floor of the sheep pen. 

 A board twelve inches wide is used for a base board, and a five 

 inch board for top ; at each post a brace is nailed, connecting 

 with the wall. This makes a rack like the following : 



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This same rack can be made double, so that sheep can 

 feed on both sides at the same time. In case it is made double 

 it would have to be made down tlie middle of the sheep house, 



