. Sheep farming in America . Sheep and sheep breeding. 244 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. without some shelter from wet. North of Dli- nois, however, where rains are infrequent and snows light and dry, sheds are sometimes dis- pensed with, but that is really outside the corn- belt. The character of the bam or shed used is not essential. It may be a simple roof open on two or three sides, to which hay will be hauled on wagons from ricks. The writer has. SIDE VIEW OF MODEL SHEEP BARN, SHOWING DOORS such a feeding plant and uses it to good -ad- vantage. It may better be a bam of two stories, the upper


. Sheep farming in America . Sheep and sheep breeding. 244 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. without some shelter from wet. North of Dli- nois, however, where rains are infrequent and snows light and dry, sheds are sometimes dis- pensed with, but that is really outside the corn- belt. The character of the bam or shed used is not essential. It may be a simple roof open on two or three sides, to which hay will be hauled on wagons from ricks. The writer has. SIDE VIEW OF MODEL SHEEP BARN, SHOWING DOORS such a feeding plant and uses it to good -ad- vantage. It may better be a bam of two stories, the upper one stored with alfalfa or clover hay. In the lower or ground story the lambs are fed. Their part should be eight feet high in the clear, all in one large room, which may be divided as desired by use of racks or movable Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wing, Joseph E. (Joseph Elwyn), 1861-1915. Chicago : Sanders Publishing Co.


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