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PLAN OP A SHEEP-BARN. 
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PLAN OF A SHEEP-BARN. 
The following is a description of a sheep-barn 
by Richard Morgan, of Aurora, Cayuga county, N. 
Y., as published in Morrell’s American Shepherd :— 
I have adopted the plan of bringing all of the 
"buildings upon the farm into one compact body in¬ 
stead of being scattered promiscuously over the 
farm. You will discover that I have drawn four 
sheep-barns in connexion with each other, a de¬ 
scription of one of which will answer for all 
Sheep-barn No. 1 is a building fifty feet in length 
by twenty in width, with jifteen-iooX posts, the first 
room or sheep-room to be six feet and a half in 
height from the bottom of the sill to the floor. A 
tight floor over head to keep out all dust and seed. 
The sheep are to be on the ground, it being better 
than a floor of wood. A pen three feet high, and 
to contain a space equal to five or six feet square, 
to be placed as shown by the letter P. on the 
ground-plan for receiving the hay when pitched 
from the mow that the sheep may not tram¬ 
ple upon it, and for holding the surplus hay 
that may be pitched from the mow. 
A rack for hay, grain, and roots, 
to extend entirely around the barn, 
excepting at the doors; one door 
opening into the interior yard and 
one into the outer yard. The 
outer yard, which the sheep are 
to go into, for their daily exercise, 
extends around the barns upon 
three sides, to be subdivided into 
small yards for the accommodation 
of each flock ; to be enclosed by a 
fence five or six feet high, close 
boarded ,• the division fences are 
each to have a gate near the barn 
for passing with a team, as the 
barns are to be filled with hay 
from that side : yards No. 1 and 
4 are thirty-five feet by fifty; Nos. 
2 and 3 are thirty-five by eighty- 
five feet. The mow is sufficient 
for twelve or fourteen tons of hay 
each. The sheds, if built all at a 
time, may be divided by a fence 
between flocks, and the mow may 
he left all in one. 
Each sheep-barn gives room for one hundred 
sheep ; fifteen inches of rack for each sheep ; suffi¬ 
cient room for all to lie down in, without being too 
much crowded ; the room should be well ventilated 
by funnels running up through the roof, or by win¬ 
dows near the upper floor, with blinds, or slats. 
The barn I believe to be a good size for one hun¬ 
dred sheep, but those who are willing to add two 
or three feet more in width, in order to give an 
alley between the sides of the barn and racks, 
would find it convenient and profitable;—but with 
the size given there would not be sufficient room. I 
will give you a description of the barn and carriage- 
room attached. The barn, carriage-house, and sta¬ 
ble, occupy thirty-five by one hundred feet; K, is 
a granary for oats; J, is a bay for oats in the 
sheaf; a cellar under both for roots, with stairs at 
S, to enter the cellar, to be closed by a trap-door, 
to be hung with hinges; I, is threshing floor; G, 
a bay for hay; H, is a stable for four cows or 
oxen; a passage-way leads from the stable into the 
barn floor ; a small door opens out of the stable 
into the yard; a small door also, from the threshing 
floor, with large door in front for driving in with 
hay and grain ; the whole occupies forty-four feet 
of the building ; F, is a covered road-way into 
the yard, twelve feet in width ; D, is a grain 
room for the horses; C, is the horse-stable with 
five stalls, racks for hay and grain, &c.: B, is an 
alley, for mixing feed, enclosed tight to keep dust 
and dirt out of the wagon-room ; O, is stairs lead¬ 
ing into the hay-mow; A, is carriage-room, a de¬ 
posit for farm-implements, &c. A tight floor covers 
the carriage-room and stable, leaving the room nine 
feet in the clear. At N, stairs lead into a room for 
storing wool. Let a room of sufficient size be par¬ 
titioned off in the loft, and be made tight against 
rats, mice, and dust, lighted by a window in the 
end of the barn. Let there be a window or door at 
each end of the mow for filling the same with hay. 
When the sheep are to be shorn let them be housed 
in sheep-barn No. 1 ; let the wagon and tool-room 
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be cleared out for the purpose, and be used for a 
shearing room ; Y, Y, V, are tables, or leaves made 
smooth, and to be hung with hinges to the side of 
the room near the floor, to be used for shearing 
upon, eight and a half feet wide ; when not in use 
to be fastened back against the side of the room, 
taking up but two inches of the room ; the roller 
to place his table in such a place near the stairs, 
that he may throw the fleece, when tied up, di¬ 
rectly into the wool-loft; let there be a trap-door in 
the wool-loft for sacking the wool. The sheep, 
when fleeced, may be turned into the interior 
yard. If the barns cannot be supplied with water 
by pipes, let a well be dug as shown in the yard. 
Yard No. 5 would answer £ good purpose for 
fowls, and yard No. 6 for the hog-pen, or if needed, 
erect a shelter, and keep the bucks safe from the 
other sheep, or such other purpose as may be most 
convenient. The interior yard is fifty by sixty 
feet, and may be used for young cattle. I should 
