THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



work and that number can easily be passed through this 

 tank in ten hours. 



A KANSAS SWIMMING TANK. 



Our friend, David Fox. gives the following plan for a 

 swimming tank : 



My working utensils con- 

 sist of one dipping vat (fig. 1), 

 two boilers (fig. 2 2), one dip- 

 ping floor (fig. 3 3), divided in- 

 to two departments, one sheep 

 yard (fig. 8) with a small three- 

 corner pen (fig. 9) next to the 

 dipping vat, which is of great 

 convenience for catching 

 sheep; all of which are shown 

 in diagram. The vat is made 

 of two-inch clear lumber, well 

 braced and bolted together so 

 that it is perfectly water tight, 

 sixteen feet long at top, twelve 

 feet long at bottom, which 

 gives four feet slope, with 

 slats on the inside for the 

 sheep to walk out of the vat 

 into the dripping floor, six 

 inches wide at the bottom on 

 the inside, sixteen inches wide 

 on top, four feet and a half 

 in depth. Three and a half 

 feet of dip is plenty to work 

 with,' but the vat should be 

 deep enough to allow one foot 

 above the dip to catch the 

 splashing dip caused by the 

 sheep struggling while in the 

 vat. There should be two cross bars across the vat, 

 at equal distances, dividing it into three equal parts 

 at the level of the dip. At each division should be 

 a good trusty man. His duties I give below. The 

 vat is set in the ground two feet and a half leaving 





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