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MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF SHEEP 



individual animals from one pen to another. In other 

 instances it admits of carrying food or litter from the feed 

 box in one division to be fed or strewn in another. The 

 size of the respective divisions is shown in the plan. Of 

 the main divisions only two are permanent, viz., those 

 which separate the lambing pens from the pens adjacent 

 to them. The lambing pens should be boarded up to the 

 ceiling to insure sufficient warmth, and may in addition, 

 if necessary, be covered with tar paper. The three cen- 



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FIG. 16— GROUND PLAN OF SHEEP BARN FOR AN ORDINARY FARM FLOCK 



tral divisions may have movable double feeding racks be- 

 tween them, should this be desired. Two of these are 

 placed in line, end to end, between each division. By re- 

 moving these racks, much of the building may virtually 

 be converted into an open shed, since the doors are 6 to 7 

 feet wide, or by removing one or more of the racks on the 

 yard side of the building and inclosing the open space at 

 the ends of those which remain. One part of the build- 

 ing may be used as an open shed, and any divisions thus 

 inclosed would answer for keeping the stock ram in it sep- 



