filled with market hay in summer, pressed out 

 and sold in the fall, and the floor then covered 

 with sawdust and leaves, the same as No. 1 and 

 the others. 



Although I say that I put in sawdust and 



leaves in the fall, I will correct that a little by 



saying that sometimes, as I have done this year, 



and as I always advise when practicable, I 



put in the sawdust before harvest on these upper 



floors. It then has time to get nice and dry, 



thereby not only preserving the floor better, but 



also absorbing the more liquid manure from the 



animals. The lower part of this building is also 



used for piling manure under in summer, and in 



the fall is treated the same as the other. Before 



the sheep are brought into this building in the 



fall, we put up, made expressly for the purpose, 



and put away in summer, three partitions on the 



upper floor and three partitions below. This 



gives us four pens above and four below, each 



eighteen by thirty feet. Each of these pens 



holds forty-five sheep, which makes one hundred 



and eighty for the upper floor, and one hundred 



and eighty below, or altogether for this building, 



three hundred and sixty sheep. On account of 



the lower part of this building being lower than 



