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THE SHEPHERD'S 



boilers for heating the dipping 

 fluid, and draining pens for 

 collecting the dripping from 

 the dipped sheep. Apian of 

 the yards and pens is shown 

 in figure 93, and another which 

 may be more suitable in some 

 cases, in figure 94. The former 

 plan is laid out as follows : 

 The large yard marked (1), 

 tapers gradually to a lane (2), 

 guarded by a gate (3), which 

 swings either way, to turn the 

 sheep into the pens 4 or 5, as 

 may be desired. This plan is 

 devised so as to be made availa- 

 ble at shearing time, when the 

 sheep are turned into the pen 



5, which has a boarded floor, 

 that it may be swept and keep 

 the sheep clean, and from 

 which they may be taken as 

 they are required into the 

 shearing yard or shed marked 



6. This arrangement thus 

 serves both purposes, and every 

 ranche, where more than a 

 thousand head are kept, should 

 be provided with something of 

 this kind. It is best always 

 to dip the sheep immediately 

 after shearing, as the dip then 

 has more effect upon the skin, 

 but a dipping should have 

 been given two weeks previ- 

 ously, to cleanse the wool from 

 the mites, which would other- 

 wise infest the yards and pens, 

 and make them a constant 

 source of infection. The yard 

 4 is intended for the lambs, 

 which are thus spared a good 



