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by causing loss and discouragement to the person engaged in 
feeding. Also, whether we waste one hundred pounds of hay 
per day, or whether four or five hundred pounds will cover the 
waste for all winter. These wastings are what hurts, although 
it looks like but a little, when you come to figure it up, you 
will be surprised to see what it amounts to. 
My apparatus or feeding box for feeding hay, grain, roots, 
etc., which it took me four years to perfect, and which you 
are all at liberty to use if you like it, is from twelve to four¬ 
teen feet long, twenty-two inches wide, with a tight bottom ; 
the upper sides let in by the scantling at the ends and middle, 
and all the box, except the bottom, put together with good 
stout screws. I claim for this box economy, expedition and 
cleanliness. 
The sheep cannot upset the feeder nor his basket, as he car¬ 
ries it on his shoulder or in his arms to the first box; he 
walks up perfectly straight, and scatters the feed from the bas¬ 
ket evenly and quickly through all the boxes in the yard, the 
sheep falling in behind him, just as well drilled soldiers fall in 
line at the tap of the drum—the whole time consumed for 
putting grain in four of these boxes for seventy-five sheep, 
not being more than one minute. Then, also, the space being 
but from eight to ten inches wide, there is no chance for the 
sheep to get more than their heads through, and the box being 
but twenty-two inches wide, ‘there is no need for crowding or 
straining to reach their feed, but each animal stands quietly 
and comfortably until his meal is finished. Also, every experi¬ 
enced sheep-man knows that sheep always crowd up to their 
feed instead of away from it; consequently with a good feed¬ 
ing box no hay or grain can be wasted. 
As I said before, four of -these boxes can have grain put in 
very quickly, as the boys often take hay enough at onco for 
^wo boxes, drop part in, and the balance in the other, when, 
by a little shake of the fork, it is scattered evenly through the 
box. The same also with roots, as the feeder, when he gets to 
the first box, can put them in so quick, that, let the sheep 
come as fast as they can, they cannot catch him before he is 
through. 
