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lamb creep at each end. Have 150 barrel tank in haymow three 

 feet from sides and packed with hay. 



"Tank takes water from roof. Have three troughs and pipes 

 with faucets. We have a fifty-bushel feed bin with elevated floor, 

 so feed will slide down. This is filled from barn floor and taken 

 out below. Grain is mixed at granery before putting in. I don't 

 like doing this very well, but don't advise a granery in the barn. 

 Mice and even rats are sure to get in. Have a grain house near 

 barn. We never had a mouse in there. We keep some sheep on 

 second floor by scaffolding one side of barn floor and we keep all 

 our tools and a bunch of fine rams there. This barn holds eighty 

 tons of hay. We never put grain in because we do not want our 

 straw stack in yard. It is a good point to have straw stack outside 

 and carry it in to bed with. Our barn has a raised drive and 

 bridge to get in. Some prefer driving in on level, but I don't." 



THE HOSPITAL. 



No sheep farm or shepherd's outfit can be said to be complete 

 without its hospital. It does not necessarily mean that this must 

 be a costly structure or that it must necessarily be equipped with 

 an elaborate and costly paraphernalia, for the rudest kind of a 

 building, providing it is comfortable, will answer the purpose of 

 a hospital. It should be isolated from the sheep barns and kept 

 scrupulously clean, well-ventilated and at all times thoroughly 

 disinfected. 



THE SHEPHERD'S QUARTERS. 



A really modern sheep barn has its shepherd's room wherein 

 is found a complete kit in the shape of bed, stove, medicine-chest 

 and other things necessary to the proper management of the flock 

 during the lambing and other seasons. Of course the inevitable 

 shears, knives, trocar and lambing forceps are among the more im- 

 portant of the shepherd's "surgical" instruments and these are 

 supplemented with needles, splints, cardboard, cotton-wool and 

 bandages of various widths. A good stock of drugs and a drench- 

 ing bottle for their administration in internal troubles should be 

 on hand. Flaxseed, from which the most soothing and nourishing 

 of "teas" are made, is one of the most indispensable articles in 

 the room. In the drug line is found carbolic acid, which in the 

 proportion of 60 to 1 is one of the best antiseptics and injections 

 for ewes suffering from the after effects of abortion, etc. This also 

 makes a fine disinfectant and dressing for the hands in handling 

 animals suffering from troubles in which danger from blood poi- 

 soning may exist. 



Of course that great double-acting remedy for constipation 

 and diarrhoea, castor oil, is included in the list, and that great 



