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THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



large yard is enclosed by hurdles, which may bo moved 

 with ease, or one of which being loosened forms a rotary 

 gate. There is room for a thousand sheep in this house, 

 without crowding at the feed racks. Fig. 3 shows the front 



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 FIG. 5. SLIDING GATE. 



FIG. 4. FLOOR PLAN WITH FEED RACK. 



of the house; fig. 4 is the floor plan; and fig. 5 shows tho 

 section through the house with the framing and the passage 

 way, with the feed racks on each side. 



This passage is wide enough to per- 

 mit a wagon or sled to go through with 

 a load of fodder, which is distributed 

 easily among the feed racks with the 

 least amount of labor. 



This house is built of posts set in the ground. The 

 framing is all of rough timber, and the roof and whole en- 

 closure consists of the common steel sheet roofing. It is fur- 

 nished with tight gates, so that in the heaviest cold storms 

 it may be entirely closed in, ample ventilation being pro- 

 vided for by the long narrow r openings in the front of each 

 gable, and others at the back. The feed troughs are made 

 of the steel sheeting, nailed to common post timber, hewed 

 into the proper form. This resource was made necessary 

 by the difficulty of getting saw r ed timber, a<nd the hewing 

 was cheaper than the saw r ing with whip saws. 



The fundamental rules for success in housing and hand- 

 ling sheep may be repeated here for full consideration; so 

 that each one concerned, knowing his own necessities aim! 

 conditions, may apply these suggestions to his own indi- 

 vidual case. It was once remarked by one of the most pro- 

 found and successful teachers of mathematics as a rule for 

 his pupils (of whom the author was one) that whenever 

 there was any doubt, one should immediately revert to the 

 principle involved in the question. Everything in the whole 



