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have it warm enough so tkat water will not 

 freeze within. If the user is uncertain whether 

 he will rememher to open these upper doors he 

 had better not hang them at all, but leave the 

 space open instead. The cold and snow that 

 will blow in will do less injury to the fattening 

 lambs than the deprivation of air would do. 



The bam should have no floor save the nat- 

 ural earth. Water troughs of concrete are best 

 and they may be provided to be half within and 

 half outside of the bam, on the sunny side. 

 These tanks may be of large size, thus obviat- 

 ing the necessity of storage tanks, say 10x12 

 feet and about 18 inches deep. It is of no use to 

 make a lamb 's drinking trough very deep, and 

 in fact there is danger that they may drown in 

 a deep tank, since they will sometimes jump 

 within it. 



The amount of room needed in a feeding 

 bam is about 5 square feet to a lamb aside 

 from the racks. In practice one will need about 

 8 square feet gross, which will give him room 

 for his racks. To feed, then, a carload or 350 

 lambs, he needs a bam about 36x72 feet. Some 

 feeders crowd the lambs more than that, but 

 they will not thrive as they ought nor ripen 

 evenly unless all have room so that they may 

 eat at the same time. 



The next thing is the feed rack. Various 

 types are in use and all have some good quali- 

 ties. After much experience with various 

 types the writer finds this form ' best (see 

 illustration). It is made of two 1x6" boards 

 spEuced 24 ijiches apart, with ends and q. hot- 



