PRACTICAL PAPERS—FATTENING SHEEP. 
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These boxes have only to be turned over and back again, 
and they are clean. No dirt can get in from the sides, as tbe 
space between the upper and lower board is too narrow, and 
the box being from twenty-eigbt to thirty inches high, no dirt 
can get in from the top, consequently when the box is turned 
over and back again, it is always clean. 
As to feed, water, litter, salt, etc., I must first and most par¬ 
ticularly urge the feeder to have plenty of them, of a good 
quality, and have it right there. It is not very good economy 
to depend upon your neighbors, when you buy your feed or 
any. part of it, to bring it to you from day to day, but you 
should always have at least two weeks or more feed on hand, 
when you will be all right, come fair weather or foul. I have 
seen a case of that kind, where a lot of fat sheep were obliged 
to go without their grain a whole day, on account of a disap¬ 
pointment, which could not be made good again in three days’ 
feeding. Water, too, should be looked after regularly. I 
have a rule tha^ the boys shall go around and fill up the 
troughs with water twice in the morning after feeding, and 
twice in the afternoon, always commencing everything in the 
shape of feed, water, salt, etc., "with No. 1, and always ending 
with the last yard or stable. 
Littering cannot under any circumstances be neglected. I 
have often stood in the yard or stable, and noticed when the 
bedding was becoming wet or dirty, how careful the sheep 
were to keep out of it, and how reluctantly they would lie 
down. As soon as they get a good nice clean bedding, they 
would drop down upon it, and lie there as contented and 
happy, to all appearances, as an exhausted and worn-out per¬ 
son would on a bed of down ; and here I shall take the lib¬ 
erty to say, that in my humble opinion, this is the time and 
the only time they accumulate flesh. Salt, ashes, etc., should 
also never be forgotten ; no, not for a single day. 
Quietness, also, is of the greatest importance, and, in order to 
secure it, I have a rule never to allow strangers in the yard, 
unless accompanied by the feeder. The sight of a stranger in 
the yard will send the sheep pell-mell in every directicn, and 
