CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEP RACK. 751 



across, so as to allow two of the XDieces to fit together like a 

 saw-buck, thus : 



Boards ten inches wide are then nailed on each side below 

 the crotch, allowing the edges to meet at the top, thus. A- 

 Notches are sawed at intervals to allow the boards to fit well 

 around the cross pieces. This board is made the back side of 

 a trough by nailing a six-inch board to the lower edge in this 

 manner : 



The next step is to take wide boards, the wider the better, 

 and nail to the outside of the cross pieces, beginning at the 

 bottom and boarding up tight, leaving a space between the 

 lower edge of the side board and the back part of the trough 

 of three inches. The end view of the rack would be like this : 



When it is designed to make long racks and troughs, they 

 need not be made so strong nor so well braced as when made 

 shorter, and to be moved from one place to another. 



