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and lower board is too narrow, and the box being 

 from twenty-eight to thirty inches high, no dirt 

 can get in from the top, consequently when the box 

 is turned over and back again, it is always clean. 



As to feed, water, litter, salt, etc., I must first 

 and most particularly urge the feeder to be sure 

 and have plenty of them, of a good quality, and 

 to have it right there. It is not very good 

 economy to depend upon your neighbors, when 

 you buy your feed or any part of it, to bring it 

 to you from day to day, but you should always ' 

 have at least two weeks or more feed on hand, 

 when you will be all right, come fair weather or 

 foul. I have seen a case of that kind, where 

 a lot of fat sheep were obliged to go without their 

 grain for a whole day, on account of a disap- 

 pointment, which could not be made good again in 

 three days' feeding. Water, too, should be looked 

 after regularly. I have a rule that the boys shall 

 go around and fill up the troughs with water 

 twice in the morning after feeding, and twice in 

 the afternoon, alwaj's commencing everything 

 in the shape of feed, water, salt, etc. with No. 1, 

 and always ending with the last yard or stable. 



Littering cannot under any circumstances be 

 neglected. I have often stood in the yard or 



