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F and G. The shearing floor and the shepherd's house are 

 in this pen D, near the dipping vat. 



A MANITOBA SHEEP HOUSE. 



A Manitoba farmer has solved the problem of how to 

 dispose of the refuse of his large wheat and oat crop, and 

 preserve the fertility of his land with profit. He, as other 

 wise farmers have been doing for ages past and are doing 

 to-day, keeps sheep to consume the wastes of his grain 

 crops; the straw and chaff, and the screenings of the wheat 

 cleaned for sale together with ample crops of oats and peas 

 grown together, and harvested when the grain is merely 

 formed, and then ensiloed. This feed is well adapted to 

 feeding sheep and no other is required either for mainte- 

 nance of the flocks or for fattening those drafted out for 

 sale. 



He has also solved the problem of the housing of the 

 sheep, when this is necessary or even desirable for the wel- 

 fare of the flocks. His houses are constructed in the sim- 

 plest manner. They are 200 feet long and 50 wide, having 

 a feed trough on the rear side, and cross feeding racks by 

 which the house is divided into pens 25x20 feet. A passage 

 runs the whole length of the house, and is eight feet wide. 

 The entrance gates to this passage are made to open out- 

 wards, but only half way, so that they form an entrance 

 with sloping sides by which the sheep entering cannot choke 

 the way or injure themselves by crowding in the sharp 

 entrance. The passage way is provided with gates which 

 are hung by cords which go over pulleys on the center posts; 

 and weights being attached to the cords so as to partly bal- 

 ance the gates, they are lifted with ease by a mere touch 



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PIG. 3. FRONT OF THE HOUSE. 

 For a Grain Farm, Oat and Pea Silage, with grain for feed. 



of the hand, and remain suspended until drawn down again. 



By this device each department of the house may be 



closed and each space of fifty by twenty-five feet turned 



into a separate pen, having a door to the outside where a 



