PRACTICAL PAPERS—FATTENING SHEEP. 
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at the rate of from three to four bushels to the hundred. The 
middle floor of this building is used for carriages, sleighs, har¬ 
ness, etc., and the upper floor for grain for the sheep, and 
holds from fifteen to sixteen hundred bushels (not without 
studding in the beams however). After the feeding and 
watering is finished an the morning, the grain that is needed 
from the wagon house is brought down and mixed with oil- 
meal, etc., in the alley heretofore mentioned in the granary in 
the barn, for the next two feedings. 
The next building I shall mention, which I will call shed 
No. 1, is twenty-one by twenty-four feet, sixteen foot posts— 
on the south side of the barn. The upper part of this build- 
ling is filled in the summer with market hay, which is pressed 
out and sold in the fall, the floor covered with sawdust and 
leaves, and when the time arrives, forty sheep are put up and 
kept there untd they are sold in the spring. Of all my feed¬ 
ing yards and stables, I always find that these second-story 
sheep do best. The lower part of the building has manure 
piled under it in summer, as I always like to have what 
manure is not used in the spring under cover through the hot 
weather; it is taken out clean in the fall, and the shed 
arranged the same as the upper part, and, together with an 
open yard about twenty-four by sixty feet, holds sixty sheep. 
These sheep have always the run of this yard with the shed, 
except when it is stormy, and then they are closely confined 
to the shed. 
The next in order is a small shed in rear of No. 1, about 
ten by twenty feet, in which the stock rams are kept. The 
next is another low shed west of the barn, about fourteen by 
twenty-four feet, for breeding ewes. Both these sheds have 
small yards attached for good weather, are used in summer for 
piling manure under, are cleaned out in the fall, and receive, 
like No. 1, a coating of sawdust and leaves, when they are 
ready again for the sheep. 
Next comes another shed, also west of the barn, thirty by 
seventy-two feet, with twenty-foot posts. The upper part of 
this building is also filled with market hay in the summer. 
