SHEEP BARNS. 



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SHEEP BARNS. 



Success with sheep depends in a great measure upon having proper 

 "barns or sheds for them. Sheep culture will, no doubt, greatly 

 increase in the course of a few years, and, as the improved breeds 

 are more widely introduced, a better system of keeping them, with 

 proportionately better profit, will be adopted. Few farms are well 

 provided with accommodations for sheep, excepting where the farm 

 is devoted to them, and even then many large flocks suffer for want of 



SHEEP SHED FOB A SMALL FLOCK. 



proper conveniences. This is especially injurious to the lambs, many 

 of which are lost from accidents which might have been avoided. 

 Sheep require pure air and dry lodging chiefly. Their fleece 

 protects them from cold in the severest weather, and they know how 

 io keep warm by huddling or bunching together when necessary. 

 A close shed is therefore not healthful, because when sheep get over- 

 heated they are very apt to suffer from lung diseases, and pneu- 

 monia is one of the most fatal disorders to sheep. One night's over- 

 heating in a close shed will cause sheep to run at the nose, which is 

 the first step towards inflammation of the lungs. A good tight roof, 

 with an open front on the south side, placed on the north side of a 

 dry yard, makes a sufficient shelter for a flock. For a small flock the 

 yard and shed shown in the above engraving is recommended by 

 Henry Stewart, the author of the " Shepherd's Manual, " in that 

 work, from which this illustration is borrowed. 



A barn for a larger flock, designed by the late Hon. Geo. Geddes, 

 of Onondaga, N. Y. (see engravings), is made with the pens eight 



