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conveniently; (2) it facilitates the easy storage of foods 

 of different classes and the placing of the same for con- 

 venient feeding, providing the shed has room for such 

 storage overhead ; (3) it makes it possible to increase the 

 yard room and divisions in the same, and such possible 

 increase becomes greater with increasing narrowness in 

 the sheds; (4) it facilitates the easy removal of sheep 

 from pen to pen and without the necessity of exposing 

 them to outdoor weather. These facts will become more 

 and more apparent as the plans submitted later in this 

 chapter are studied. 



In some instances to these oblong buildings ex- 

 tensions are added in the form of an L, which means that 

 these are placed at right angles to the main shed. Some- 

 times these extensions are at one end. In other instances 

 they are at both ends. More commonly they extend quite 

 across the end of the main building. Where but one ex- 

 tension is built, it should be placed on the windward side 

 of the yard. These extensions are, in a sense, a continua- 

 tion of the main shed, but at a different angle. They 

 serve the purpose, first, of adding to the room ; second, of 

 making it possible to add to the yard room; and, third, 

 of furnishing protection to the yards from winds. There 

 is no method of furnishing such protection that is more 

 efficacious. 



In such an oblong building the location of the feed 

 passage depends on the width of the same. Where the 

 building is wide enough to admit of placing divisions on 

 both sides of the passage, it must run from end to end, 

 but not necessarily in the center, as it may be desirable 

 to have the divisions larger on one side than on the other. 

 The average width for such a passage is 6 feet. It should 

 seldom be narrower, but may be wide enough where large 

 numbers are to be fed to drive two horses and a wagon 

 through the same. This would call for a width of not less 

 than 9 or 10 feet. Where fodders and bedding are kept 

 overhead, they may be thrown down through chutes into 



