2OO MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



half pitch roof. This barn will accommodate sixty sheep. The 

 loft will hold about- five tons of hay. The first floor is composed of 

 just common clay and the distance to the second floor is 8 feet 

 6 inches. Railroad door faces the south. There are two windows 

 on the end and three on the side and half turned stairs on one 

 corner. The second floor is made of 1-inch hemlock boards, just 

 common unmatched. This floor is 7 feet 6 inches to the loft on 

 the end facing the east. I have railroad door and incline for the 

 sheep to go in and out, with a separate yard on this second floor. 

 There are three windows on each side and two on the end. It is 

 necessary for me to raise some of the windows in zero weathef on 

 account of its being so warm on this floor, from the heat generated 

 by the sheep below. The barn is not sealed, but simply covered 

 with common novelty siding. I raise my early winter lambs on this 

 floor. Lambs have been born when the weather was twenty below 

 zero and no attention paid to them whatever only to see that they 

 were properly nursed. When I have very young lambs, I keep the 

 windows shut. I never lost a lamb on this floor on account of cold. 

 I use V-shaped racks with a good tight bottom so that I can feed 

 grain or roots before feeding hay. The racks are 22 feet long, giv- 

 ing 4 feet for the sheep to pass around the ends. They are set 

 lengthways of the barn, little one side, thus giving me a chance to 

 put up a row of small pens on one side. These I use only just be- 

 fore or right after the lamb is born. As soon as I get through with 

 these pens I take them down and store them overhead, ready for 

 another year. My sheep commence to lamb in December and I 

 have sold lambs about the 20th of February that weighed fifty 

 pounds. I like the plan of my barn very well and were I building 

 a larger one I should build it after the same style. 



A description of the barn of Mr. A. T. Gamber, the well- 

 known Ohio fine wool sheep breeder, has many features to rec- 

 ommend it. The description of this barn is given in its owner's 

 own words : "This barn is 40x80 ft., S 1 /^ ft. basement and 20 ft. 

 posts above. The barn stands long way east and west, so as to 

 get lots of sun, so that the yard will be on the south side of the 

 barn. I will have a building set north and south at southwest 

 corner of barn next month ; then I will have ideal yards and build- 

 ings on north and west to break all wind. My wall of stone is 

 only 18 inches. I prefer wood to stone. I have five windows on 

 south side, 7x2!/2 feet, giving plenty of light and sunshine. There 

 are two windows of same size at each end. Have light rolling gates 

 inside, easy to open and close. We put. a track up above on cross- 

 beams ; then pieces at ends of gates run up to this track with roll- 

 ers on pieces. We drive manure spreader through barn long 

 ways. West end for rams, center alley for feed room, with sheep 

 pen either side. Next section of alley is a nice sheep pen and 

 long narrow 14x20 ft. pens on either side. Then sheep pen and 



