CHAPTER XIX. 

 WINTER MANAGEMEITT. 



WINTER SHELTEB TEMPOEAEY SHEDS HAT BAENS WITH 



OPEN SHEDS SHEEP BAENS OE STABLES CLEANING OUT 



STABLES IN WINTBE TAEDS LITTEEING TAEDS CON- 

 FINING SHEEP IN TAEDS AND TO DET FEED. 



WiNTEE Sheltbe.— It has already been assumed that a 

 degree of winter shelter is requisite for the most profitable 

 management of sheep in all parts of the United States. The 

 Merino can withstand far greater exposures to extremes and 

 to rapid fluctuations of weather, than any other improved 

 or really valuable breed. In Spain it was unsheltered. In 

 Western Texas — in that magnificent sheep-growing region 

 which lies immediately north of San Antonio — it has been 

 claimed that it requires no shelter ; but facts which I shall 

 allude to hereafter incontestibly prove the contrary. 



SHED OP POLES. 



Tempoeaet Sheds. — Adequate shelter in warm regions 

 like Western Texas, demands no arrangements which would 

 be at all expensive in a weU-wooded region, or where sawed 

 timber could be obtaLued at moderate prices — for the 

 cheapest form of open shed (i. e., open on one side,) would 

 answer the purpose. Or, excellent sheds might be constructed 

 with logs or poles. The pole shed is made as shown above. 



