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story; (5) warm lambing pens; (6) facilities for water- 

 ing ; (7) sunlight, yard room and paddocks ; (8) ventila- 

 tion without drafts. 



A building oblong in shape and not too wide, is usu- 

 ally preferred for sheep, to one more nearly square. This 

 will hold true of it, whether it has a passageway in the 

 center from end to end and divisions on either side, or 

 whether it has a passageway along one side and one tier 

 of pens along the same. For the reason, see page 329. 



Whether the structure shall have one or two stories 

 will depend very much on the climate as to precipitation, 

 and on the amount of food called for to carry through the 

 winter. The more moist the climate, the larger the 

 amount of the precipitation in winter, and the longer the 

 demand for food continues the greater is the necessity for 

 two stories rather than one (see page 330). 



The matter of the facilities for feeding is greatly im- 

 portant, because of the bearing that it has upon the 

 amount of labor involved, and because of the influence 

 which it has upon the saving or the wasting of food. The 

 facilities called for vary greatly with the size of the flock 

 and the divisions in the same, with the nature of the food 

 or foods fed, and with the climatic conditions (see page 



332). 



The divisions in the lower story are dependent in a 

 great measure on the divisions in the flock, and on the 

 time when the lambs come. The larger the number of 

 the divisions in the flock and the earlier the season at 

 which the lambs begin to come, the larger is the number 

 of the divisions required (see page 335). 



The necessity for warm lambing pens is, in a sense, 

 imperative in a climate of low winter temperatures when 

 the lambs come before the advent of warm weather. 

 When the lambs come into existence in the fields, of 

 course, the necessity for lambing pens is not present. On 

 the ranges of the West the question of lambing pens does 

 not need to be considered, but in areas where winter 



