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pressed out and sold in the fall, and the floor then covered 
with sawdust and leaves, the same as No. 1 and the others. 
Although I say that I put in sawdust and leaves in the fall, 
I will correct that a little by saying that sometimes, as I have 
done this year, and as I always advise when practicable, I put 
in the sawdust before harvest on these upper floors. It then 
has time to get nice and dry, thereby not only preserving the 
floor better, but also absorbing the more liquid manure from 
the animals. The lower part of this building is also used for 
piling manure under in summer, and in the fall is treated the 
same as the other. Before the sheep are brought into this 
building in the fall, we put up, made expressly for the pur¬ 
pose, and put away in summer, three partitions on the upper 
floor and three partitions below. This gives us four pens 
above and four pens below, each eighteen by thirty feet. Each 
of these pens holds forty-five sheep, which makes one hun¬ 
dred and eighty for the upper floor, and one hundred and 
eighty below, or altogether for this budding, three hundred 
and sixty sheep. On account of the lower part of this build¬ 
ing being lower than the upper one, I have for each of these 
lower pens a small yard attached, about ten by eighteen feet, 
which in good weather they always get with their pens. Yen- 
tilating windows are also provided for all the pens, and are 
always regulated according to the weather. Two of these 
lower pens have two cisterns, supplied from the roof of this 
shed and one side of the barn, which generally, but not al¬ 
ways, keep the sheep in this building supplied with water. 
The next building is a shed, a “lean-to,” on the north side 
of the barn, twenty by forty-four feet, used as the others for 
piling manure under in summer, cleaned out and treated as the 
others in the fall, and holding seventy sheep. The upper 
partis used for straw, corn-stalks, etc., in winter. Under this 
shed I have a well, which besides its natural supply, gets 
what water this roof brings, together with the other side of the 
barn and another shed not yet mentioned. This shed has no 
yard. 
The next and last permanent shed (although I had another 
