. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . ELEVATION FIG. 68.—DETAIL OP SHEEP FEEDING-RACK RECOMMENDED AS MOST ECONOMICAL OF FEED floor. Sheep do best standing on the natural earth, but thismust be invariably kept dry, and consequently the sheepfoldshould be located only on high ground or on such as can beeffectively drained. To make the floor dry beyond
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . ELEVATION FIG. 68.—DETAIL OP SHEEP FEEDING-RACK RECOMMENDED AS MOST ECONOMICAL OF FEED floor. Sheep do best standing on the natural earth, but thismust be invariably kept dry, and consequently the sheepfoldshould be located only on high ground or on such as can beeffectively drained. To make the floor dry beyond question,it is well to fill in the building with a foot or so of broken stoneand then to lay 8 or 10 in. of earth upon OTHER BUILDINGS 193 The best method of dividing the barn into pens is by thefeeding-racks, which are always made movable. The type offeeding-rack which allows the sheep to put its head betweenwide slats and eat the hay (Fig. 68) is preferable to anyother. The usual narrow slatted rack (Fig. 69) causes thesheep to pull the hay out of the rack before it is eaten, andmuch of it is trampled under foot and thereby wasted. Many small pens for lambing ewes should be provided; these B-O TO IZ-O 1 f
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