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and we advise an impervious asphalt floor with moss litter 

 as bedding, which should be sufficient to absorb all the 

 liquid excreta. 



Scott places the building at 50 feet by 18 feet, with a 

 feeding passage of 4 feet down the centre (Fig. 142), and 

 this he considers as ample accommodation for one hundred 

 sheep ; the superficial area allowed being 7 square feet per 

 head. 



At the end of the building are the food stores and mixing 

 floor, while on either side of the passage the feeding troughs 

 are arranged. As the sheep shed is only 50 feet long, and 

 there are 50 sheep in each, it is quite certain the whole of 

 these cannot feed at one time. Scott tells us that in these 

 sheep sheds the animals fatten more rapidly and econo- 

 mically than out of doors. 



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Fig. 142. — Buildings for Sheep. 



American sheep barn, which consists of covered sheds for 

 sheep around three sides of a barn, the fattening shed, ewe 

 shed, and ram shed being distinct, with a yard to each. In 

 addition there are lambing pens and stores for food and wool. 

 Sheep can be sheltered in the open by very inexpensive 

 methods, the most common is the stuffed hurdle, viz., two 

 hurdles face to face with a good layer of straw between them. 

 These may be used either placed vertically in the ground, 

 the sheep seeking the lee side, or they may be inclined 

 towards each other A fashion, or as a lean-to against a 

 fence or wall : even a house may be built of hurdles by 

 driving in sufficient to form three walls and using others 



as a roof. 



Galvanized iron in sheets may also be employed as 

 a lean-to, but these must be secured in some way, as loose 

 sheets are dangerous in a high wind. 



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