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The location of the lambing pens and of the root cellar 

 is shown in the engraving, but should occasion call for 

 it there may be a lambing pen in each of the structures 

 which will hold fodder, and two root cellars, one below each 

 of the corner structures, would be a great convenience when 

 feeding the roots. The feeding racks, D, are placed along 

 the front of the sheds, but they may be placed toward the 

 rear, or as desired. The hay chutes come down into in- 

 closures of suitable height at C. The size of these must 

 be adjusted to the amounts of the fodder called for, but 

 they should be amply large. The feed bin, B, 10 x 12 feet, 

 is shown in the sketch, and to the rear of it is a stairway 

 leading to the root cellar, which is underneath the lamb- 

 ing pen. The loft over the feed room and the lambing 

 pen should have a tight floor. The sheds may be divided 

 by movable partitions, and the yard may also be sub- 

 divided by movable fences. 



The following are among the advantages of such a 

 structure: (i) It furnishes shelter for a large flock of 

 sheep and storage room for food and litter for the same 

 at relatively small cost. (2) It furnishes permanent shel- 

 ter against the winds, virtually without cost, and it is 

 shelter of the most effective kind. (3) It makes it easily 

 possible to get abundant paddock room by placing the 

 paddocks at the rear of the buildings. The sheep may be 

 admitted into these directly from the sheds. 



Fig. 18 shows the ground plan of a sheep house 

 adapted to the needs of a large breeding flock kept under 

 farm conditions. It represents the ground plan of the 

 sheep barn at the Minnesota experiment farm. A build- 

 ing of the same dimensions may be too costly for an 

 average breeding flock on the ordinary farm, but the same 

 is not true of it where a large breeding flock is to be main- 

 tained for a term of years. There are certain features 

 about the plan which can be profitably utilized by the 

 flockmaster when erecting shelter for sheep on a much 

 smaller scale. 



