750 WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA. 



aiKl sliould be thirty inches wide, with the same dimensions 

 otlierwise. I liave several built on this principle, but with dif- 

 ferent dimensions, and find that the most economical ones are 

 made as here suggested. If these directions are closely fol- 

 lowed, it will be found that there is ample room for holding 

 all the hay that sheep standing to it can eat in twenty-four 

 hours, and by using care in putting the hay well down in the 

 rack, there is no danger that sheep will eat from the top and 

 draw the hay on the backs of the others, getting seed and 

 litter in their wool. 



I also find a rack of this size economical, as the sheep can 

 readily get at the feed, and the hight of the base-board being 

 twelve inches, obviates the danger of dragging out the hay 

 under their feet. 



TROUGHS. 



When grain is fed and this rack is in use, I have troughs 

 with flat bottoms, ten inches wide, along one side of the build- 

 ing. " A rqjling is placed over it by nailing five-inch boards to 

 two by four uprights, two and a half feet high, as I do for hay 

 racks. This keeps the sheep and lambs from getting into the 

 the trough with their feet, which is a great detriment to their 

 feeding well. A trough of this size is not liable to have any 

 wasted grain, as is the case with those of V shape, when one 

 board is simply nailed to another. If you make those y shaped 

 troughs of wide lumber, the sheep will wear their wool under 

 the neck, which makes them look ragged. The flat bottomed 

 troughs are the best, and most economical. 



ANOTHER RACK. 



The other style of rack and trough combined I have not 

 used as long as the first mentioned, but I like it equally as 

 well. It is simple of construction, takes up little room, 

 is economical with feed, and is certainly worthy of recom- 

 mendation. It can be built in sections of any desired length, 

 and if necessary, can be made portable. 



Take two by four scantling, cut four feet long ; eighteen 

 inches from one end saw a notch two inches wide diagonally 



