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Hurdling Slieep — The accompanying illustration shows bow an Eng- 

 lishman fed his sheep on an irrigated pasture, by the use of hurdles of 



a peculiar description. The hurdles are twelve feet long and are made with 

 a stout pole bored with two series of holes twelves inches apart; stakes six 

 feet long are put into these holes so that they project ixom, them three feet 



