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other. These panels are ordinarily made out of six-inch 

 fence boards with about seven-inch space between each 

 board. The load of hay is dri\'en along the outside of 

 these fences and the hay thrown off on the ground. After- 

 ward it is pushed up to the fence so the sheep can reach 

 it. When hay and grain are fed in the same troughs, 

 the wagon drives around in the same manner as when 

 the hay and the grain are placed in the feed troughs with- 

 out disturbing the lambs. In such feed yards, the wagon 

 never goes inside the lot with the sheep. Very com- 

 monly the fence is built in a zigzag, instead of straight 

 line. This gives the lambs more feeding room on the 

 same ground. In feed-lots where the grain and hay are 

 fed in separate troughs, the hay is fed through panels as 

 described above, while the grain is fed in long narrow 

 troughs built so that they stand about a foot from the 

 ground and have a bar along the top to keep the lambs 

 from jumping into them. When these grain troughs 

 are used, it is essential that these be in a separate pen and 

 that the feed be put in before letting in the lambs. Other- 

 wise, it will be impossible to distribute the grain so that 

 each lamb will receive his share. To accomplish this, 

 feed-lots are often built in a series of long narrow pens, 

 fenced with zigzag panels. When large numbers of 

 lambs are fed, it will require several pens with one extra 

 vacant pen. In feeding grain, the feed is placed in the 

 troughs of the vacant pen first and the lambs turned in 

 from pen no. 2. The grain is then put in no. 2 and the 

 lambs from no. 3 put in that pen and so on until all are 

 fed. At the next feeding, the pens are taken in the re- 

 verse order. To attempt to feed by driving teams into the 

 lot with the lambs is only to make trouble. 



The practice of cutting alfalfa hay for lambs is grow- 



