Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . HOLE RACK. holes are eight inches wide, nine inches high, and eighteen inches fromcenter to center. Sheep do not crowd and take advantage of each other SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH, 201 ac much with these as with hox racks. But they would be too heavy andunnecessarily expensive for a common out-door rack. Fig. 32 representsa box, the front formed of a board nailed on horizontally, but they areusually formed by nailing the boards perpen
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . HOLE RACK. holes are eight inches wide, nine inches high, and eighteen inches fromcenter to center. Sheep do not crowd and take advantage of each other SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH, 201 ac much with these as with hox racks. But they would be too heavy andunnecessarily expensive for a common out-door rack. Fig. 32 representsa box, the front formed of a board nailed on horizontally, but they areusually formed by nailing the boards perpendicularly, the bottoms on theBill of a barn, and the tops to horizontal pieces of timber. In the South, as in England, racks will not be so necessary for thatconstant use to which they are put in colder countries, as for depositoriesof dry food, for the occasional visitation of the sheep. In soft warmiveather, when the ground is unfrozen, and any kind of green herbage isto be obtained, sheep will scarcely touch dry foddei—though the little theyviill then eat will he highly serviceable to them. But in a sudden freeze, oron the occurrence of cold storms,
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