52 THE SHEPHERD'S MANUAL. 



Below the feed-rack is the feed-trough for roots or meal. A door 

 shuts off this trough from the sheep at the front, while the feed is 

 being prepared, and when it is ready, the door is raised, and held 

 up to the feed-rack by a strap or a hook. The feed-rack is closely 



Fig. 21. GROUND PLAN OP BARN. 



boarded behind, and this back part, which is in the feed-passage, 

 slopes forward to the front, so as to carry the hay forward to the 

 bottom. The front of the rack is of upright slats, smoothly 

 dressed, two inches wide, and placed three inches apart. The 

 boards of the feed-trough are smoothly dressed and sand-papered, 

 and all the edges are rounded, so that there is nothing by which 

 the wool may be torn or rubbed off from the sheep's necks. It 

 will be seen by this arrangement, that there is no dangerous thing 



Fig. 22. SHEEP SHED FOR A SMALL FARM. 



by which a sheep or a lamb might be hurt, nor a place where it 

 can get into mischief. The root-cellar is at the rear of the base- 

 ment, and is reached by the stairs already mentioned. The cost 

 of the barn here described, if built of pine or hemlock lumber, in 



