122 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



occasionally, and kept quite clean standing on their manure 

 for four months. 



These feeding floors, as described, stretch through the 

 whole length of the barn. A feeding-car passes through 

 two wings, and, by having a turn-table, may pass through 

 any wing. Feed may be dropped through a chute on the 

 side of the upper floor into the car wherever placed on any 

 feeding floor. This form of barn gives every facility for any 

 style of feeding, cutting and cooking the food, or cutting 

 and grinding a large engine, placed in the center, would 

 do all the work ; and this also offers the best facility for 

 soiling this thousand head in summer. 



SHEEP BABNS. 



There have been a variety of forms in sheep barns rec- 

 ommended some contending that sheep should never be 

 wintered in inclosed barns, that sheds are a sufficient shel- 

 ter, and all the confinement that sheep can stand with 

 health. 



But in all the Northern and Eastern States the best 

 shepherds have discarded the open shed as a protection 

 in the cold season, and now advise barns that can be 

 closed completely or as securely as barns for cattle, when 

 the weather requires it not forgetting ample means of 

 ventilation. 



Sheep require roomy stables, but they are as much bene- 

 fited as other stock by a nearly uniform temperature. It is 

 therefore profitable to provide warm and well-ventilated 

 stables, basements, not sunk in the earth, preferable. Per- 

 haps the style of long barn, we have described, is as well 

 adapted to sheep as to cattle. Sheep require ample room 

 to store fodder, and this long barn, 40 feet wide, with a 

 basement walled in with concrete, would furnish a stable 

 of remarkably even temperature, and affording every de- 

 sired facility for ventilation. The concrete wall furnishes 



