Otrcljitccturf. 
A COMFORTABLE HOUSE. 
f j? E ahovr, at Figs. 493, 
494 and 495 a very 
compact and con- 
veniently arranged 
bouse. It is de- 
.< signed and drawn 
jjf 'v M by Mr. D. I. Kuhn, 
architect. BisselTs 
ffP Block. Pittsburgh, 
VJ Pa. A glance at 
-/*) the plan will show 
i? that the rooms are 
arranged in a cosy 
and economical 
manner. The house 
contains a reception 
hall, parlor, dining room, kitchen, four bed- | 
from the second story in a secluded corner, 
and where the water pipes can be carried 
down in an inside partition, away from the 
frost. The main stairs are continued up to 
the attic under the highest part of the roof. 
The attic could be divided into two or more 
rooms, as might be desirable. The exterior 
i3 designed in the prevailing “modern style,” 
the ornamentation being inexpensive. 
Aural (Tapirs. 
$otr,$ from the Eurar* Jarm 
WINTERING SHEEP. 
ABE WARM STABLES DESIRABLE 
for wintering store sheep, and especially for 
breeding ewes, where good, strong, healthy 
stock is the object, instead of early winter 
lambs 1 This is the gist of many questions 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 21, 1885. 
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Vol. XLIV. No. 1869. 
sought with the least consumption of food, 
whether such food is grown upon the farm or 
purchased m the market. 
Every sheep owner knows that if at any 
time the steady growth of a shsep be inter¬ 
rupted, and especially if the animal be allow¬ 
ed to fall off in flesb, the wool-growth will be 
lessened, and that such part as is grown at 
such times isof an uneven and ioferior quality. 
Thus not only is the production lessened, but 
the value of the whole clip is injured. 
The fact is equally well established that if a 
pregnant animal be allowed to fall away in 
flesh, the foetus suffers most, and that the 
young, when produced, will not be as large, 
strong and well developed as though the 
mother had been kept steadily gaining, or at 
least bad not been allowed to shrink in flesh. 
We go farther and say that for whatever 
time any animal, especially a sheep, is kept 
without actual gain in flesh, from whatever 
cause, it is kept at the actual loss of all the 
food eaten during such time, and if it is 
goes to support the wear and tear of the sys¬ 
tem. and to keep up the animal heat, and 
under unfavorable circumstances, this pro¬ 
portion may vary up to the entire consump¬ 
tion, and even that be insufficient, and a 
drain be made upon what has been previously 
eaten and stored away as fat or flesh. 
Now, these unfavorable conditions are. ex¬ 
posure to cold, and too much exercise. Noth¬ 
ing is more evident than that warm stables 
will protect the sheep against the cold, and 
every experiment ever made shows that frost¬ 
proof walls are far cheaper than extra grain, 
in keeping up animal heat. We have re¬ 
peatedly proven by experience that sheep 
confined in warm stables, will make very 
much more gain, both in meat and wool, 
and at a much smaller consumption of food, 
than even those exposed in an open yard, pro¬ 
tected by a high, board fence. 
THE HEALTHFULNESS OF SHEEP AND LAMBS 
in warm quarters is, then, the only question left 
for us to consider. This depends upon three 
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A COMFORTABLE HOUSE. Fig. 493. 
rooms, front and back stairs, pantry, bath¬ 
room and a largo attic. The apartments are 
all large and airy, and the bed rooms are all 
provided with large closets. Access is to be 
had to all parts of the house from t he first and 
second stories. The buy windows to the 
dining room and the room above will make 
these exceedingly pleasant. The pantry is 
located in a cool place, shaded by the rear 
veianda, and is convenient to both kitchen 
and diuiug room. The parlor aud dining¬ 
room, being connected by folding doors, eau, 
if desired, be thrown into one room 15 feet 
wide aud 84 feet long. The bath-room is 
placed in front where it should be, opening 
by our friends, and the answer is of 
such great importance to the sheep- 
keeper and so pertinent at this sea¬ 
son, that we interrupt our regular sub¬ 
ject, of “ Fattening Lambs, ” in order 
that we may consider this matter. Only 
two objects can be had In view in the 
keeping of sheep, other than breeding ewes, 
and these are the production of meat, aud the 
growth of wool in the largest quantities and 
of the highest quality, aud to these must be 
added, in the case of breeding ewes., the rear¬ 
ing of healthy lambs for the continuation of 
the flock, and in all cases that method of 
wintering is beat, which will secure the object 
allowed to fall away, there is a loss, not 
only of the food consumed, but of such a 
quantity as will bo required to restore the 
ar imal to ths previous condition of flesh. 
To these losses must be added those due to 
the injury of wool and the offspring; so that 
we cannot afford to subject the flock to any 
influences that will produce such undesirable 
results. 
WHAT BECOMES OF THE FOOD 
eaten, is the next pertinent point to consider. 
By experiments made, it has been well estab 
lished that of the food consumed under the 
most favorab’e condition, nearly five eighths 
things—food, air and exercise. Without going 
into the first (as we suppose in all cases, 
the feeder will have more brains than to 
starve ht9 sheep), can the air be kept pure 
where sheep are stabled in warm quarters ? 
The only sources of impurity are the exhala¬ 
tions from the marntre and the sheep. The 
manure should be kept from active fermen¬ 
tation by plenty of litter or by frequent 
cleaning out; but where constantly trodden, 
it ferments but very little, and can be en¬ 
tirely controlled by the use of plenty of 
water or bedding. A proper system of ven- 
tilating-trunks, not less than 15 inches square, 
running out at the roof, will enable the 
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