334 MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF SHEEP 



vantageous in some instances to store them where they 

 may be taken from a cellar located in a bank or pit, not 

 too distant from the place of feeding. In other instances 

 they are stored in a division of the lower story adjacent 

 to the feed room. This storage room is protected from in- 

 tense cold by siding and tar paper. The only tangible ob- 

 jection to such an arrangement is the room which it occu- 

 pies, which in its absence could be used as a division for 

 sheep. 



When a silo is used, it should be located near the feed 

 room, though the latter should be located at one end of 

 the shed, or centrally on one side of the same. In a shed 

 placed against a bank no better place can be found for 

 the silo than in the bank and in proximity to the centrally 

 located feed room. When the silage to be fed is thus 

 thrown down into the feed room it is protected against 

 frost, and it may be thus easily mingled with other foods 

 should this be desired. But in many instances such mix- 

 ing is not deemed necessary. 



In no way can fodder be furnished so conveniently as 

 when it is stored in a suitable loft above the pens and 

 when it comes down into a passageway from which it 

 may be conveniently fed. But it may also be fed from a 

 wagon driven through the passageway, where large quan- 

 tities are to be fed. In practically rainless climates, in the 

 winter season, it may be fed from racks that are not pro- 

 tected from climatic influences and located on the outside 

 of the yards, thus making it convenient to feed fodders 

 thrown into the racks from outside sources. Into these 

 racks enough of food is placed at one time to last for sev- 

 eral days. They are so shaped as to act in a sense as self- 

 feeders. Theoretically such feeding is unwise, as it is 

 more or less wasteful of food, and the palatability of the 

 fodder is thereby also reduced. Notwithstanding, where 

 large bands are to be fed in dry areas, such a system of 

 feeding is not to be condemned. 



Litter may be very conveniently furnished from a 



