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THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



A few years' experience showed that the use of fodder 

 racks for feeding under similar circumstances, is not profita- 

 ble. The racks cost something, especially where lumber is 

 worth a high pi-ice, and generally is not to be obtained. The 

 loss of hay, costing something less than a dollar a ton 

 stacked in the yards, and the entire absence of waste in feed- 

 ing corn on the ground, by exercising a little care in scatter- 



a, Slats 2x1^ inches, sloping in, 

 nailed to scantlings 2x2 at top. c, 

 Sliding boards. 2,2, Grain troughs 8 

 inches wide. Bars are nailed across 

 the grain rack of every third slat to 

 prevent sheep from crowding. 



DOUBLE HAY RACKS AND TROUGHS. 



ing it from a wagon before the sheep have been let out and 

 have scattered, render this method of feeding the most 

 economical under the circumstances. If a hay and grain 

 rack is thought desirable this one is recommended. 



Another form of feed rack and grain trough is shown in 

 figure below. When lambs are running in the sheds with the 

 ewes it will be safe to close in the ends of the feed racks, 



and indeed to carefully close 

 every space or hole in which 

 they can enter, as it will be 

 sure to happen that these mis- 

 chievous little things will 

 crawl in somewhere and get 

 fast and only be discovered 

 when too late, and they are 

 lost. 



SOILING SHEEP. 

 On farms where the past- 

 urage is not sufficient, and 

 green crops for feeding may 

 be grown at a small cost, feed- 

 ing these in yards in which 

 there is convenient shed for 



HAY BACK AND GRAIN BOX. 



Grain box has cross cleats to 

 keep feed in place for each sheep. 



shelter at night or in stormy weather in the Winter, will be 

 found a cheap a,nd very desirable practice. 



A barn or shed placed in a central part of the space 

 to be allotted for this use will be required. A plan of such 



