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SHEEP FEEDING 



Of course a sheep occupies more than nine inches of room 

 while eating hay, but it is not necessary to furnish room for 

 all to eat at the same time. The hay is stacked in the alleys 

 and around the outside as indicated, and it is thrown direct 

 from the stack to the panels. The panels are from three to 

 three and a half feet high, with sufficient room between the 



FEEDING YARDS FOR FOUR DOUBLE-DECK CARS OF SHEEP ABOUT 1200 



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PLAN FOR BUILDING FEEDING YARDS AND GRAIN TROUGHS 



two lower boards for the sheep to put their heads through 

 and eat. The large feeder who wishes to handle more sheep 

 per pen than is possible by this arrangement may make the 

 fence out of the .sixteen-foot panels, setting each one at right 

 angles to the other. This scheme doubles the hay -feeding 

 room of a pen, but occupies little if any more area. When 

 building a yard like the one shown here it is a good plan to 

 make the ends of the yards and the end fences to the stack 



