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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 driven 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 hy driving teams into the 
lot with the lambs is only to make trouble. 
The practice of cutting alfalfa hay for lambs is grow- 
