EQUIPMENT FOR FARM SHEEP RAISING. 



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The shepherd's room is equipped with a stove and medicine closet 

 and may be used as a hospital for chilled lambs. With a room of 

 this kind at the disposal of the shepherd, this barn may be considered 

 as having all of the essentials for successful winter lambing. 



With a larger silo, a supply of roughage stored outside the barn 

 with which to refill the mow late in the fall, and a few extra feed 

 racks set up in the lots, this barn could be used for feeding out two 

 carloads of lambs in early winter before being needed for the breed- 

 ing ewes. 



The estimated cost of the barn proper, without feed racks, is $2,400. 

 These figures are given only as a guide, however, as the actual cost 

 may vary considerably from this amount, according to local prices 



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FIG. 15. A combination hay and grain rack which may be entered by attendant when 



feeding grain. 



of material and labor and the amount of farm labor that is used. 

 The estimated cost of a 9 by 26 foot concrete silo of 30-ton capacity 

 is $150, and for each additional ton $3.10 extra (Farmers' Bulletin 

 589). 



A COMBINATION HORSE, CATTLE, AND SHEEP BARN. 



Figures 5, 6, and 7 show a perspective view, floor plan, and cross 

 section of a general barn intended for farms where all live stock is 

 kept in a single building. This barn will accommodate 10 horses, 

 5 cows, and 63 sheep. In order that no kind of stock may be dis- 

 turbed by the presence of another, and to prevent drafts through the 

 building, the quarters for the horses, cows, and sheep are partitioned 

 off, as shown by the heavy lines on the plan and cross section. The 

 cow stable is ceiled on the inside of the studs to make it warmer and 



