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winter; twenty-one by thirty-six feet of this 

 shed has also manure piled under in summer, 

 used as the others in the fall, and together with 

 an open yard about thirty-six by forty feet, holds 

 seventy-five sheep. These seventy-five sheep, 

 together with the yard containing sixty sheep, 

 get their water from a well standing between the 

 two yards. Of this shed, fourteen by thirty-six 

 feet is floored and partitioned ; one half of it is 

 used for a horse stable when needed, and into the 

 other half I always put twenty of my best sheep. 

 I have now given as well as I can, a descrip- 

 tion of the buildings and arrangements I use and 

 although many of you may have better ones, 

 still I must say I am very well satisfied with 

 mine. I will now say something of feeding appa- 

 ratus, and may premise that all claimed improve- 

 ments in sheep feeding arrangements that have 

 come under my observation for the last ten or 

 twelve years, I have always examined very care- 

 fully, but have universally found after looking 

 them over, that for fattening sheep, all things 

 considered, they were no better than mine. For 

 breeding sheep, however, I think there are better 

 ones. I have a feeding box (after which I made 

 others) sent me by my friend, William Chamberlain, 



