44 The Shepherds' Guide, 



preserved, and leave the fold more free for cultiva- 

 tion. The bars should be so near each other as to 

 prevent the sheep putting their heads into the racks 

 and stirring the fodder about with iheir noses, to 

 seek for the sweetest and most succulent food, to 

 the injury and loss of what remains : and being per- 

 pendicular, the seeds, leaves and dust of the hay, 

 will not fall on their necks and shoulders, which 

 greatly injures the wool. 



Besides, the racks, troughs for meal, grain, &c. 

 should either be placed at the bottom of the racks, 

 or as I have placed mine, on the outside of my 

 winter- fold ; which being raised 12 or 14 inches 

 from the ground, prevents much waste, by the 

 sheep running into them, in their hurry to get at 

 their contents. (See plan H.) These troughs may 

 be made of two boards, of about 8 inches wide, 

 nailedtogether at an angle thus\/svhich, standing 

 on the ground may be supported by pieces of 

 board, about 14 or 16 inches long, cut so as to 



receive them thus. [>/] Mr. Livingston 



has furnished his folds with boxes, latticed in front 

 like a common coop for fowls, and furnished 

 within with a rack and small trough, to\yards the 

 back part, for his lambs. The boxes may be made 

 about the length of v. common board, about three 

 feet high and three ieet broad ; and the lattices at 

 such a disnmcf as to let in ih-- lambs, bat exclude 

 the ewes. These being always supplied with ten- 



