Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . BOX HOLE RACK. holeo are eight inches wide, nine inches high, and eighteen inches frotncenter to center. Sheep do not crowd aad take advantage of each other 1 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 201 8C much with these as with box 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 t
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . BOX HOLE RACK. holeo are eight inches wide, nine inches high, and eighteen inches frotncenter to center. Sheep do not crowd aad take advantage of each other 1 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 201 8C much with these as with box 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 theiill 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 warmweather, when the ground is unfrozen, and any kind of green herbage isto be obtained, sheep will scarcely touch dry fodder—though tJie little theynull then eat will be highly serviceable to them. But in a sudden freeze, oron the occurrence of cold storm
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