. A complete treatise on merinos and other sheep, with plates . ying it. 3. The lambs cannot s;et under, so as to be caught there,and be suffocated in the dung, as happens too often with racksthat have vacant spaces beneath them. To these general advantages, may be added the following. 1. Th?y arc moveable, and may be transported at pleasure,without the aid of a u orkman ; they may be fixed and unfixedas need requires ; and this is very advantageous, both to farmerswho only hire their farms, and to proprietors who maywish to change, for a time, the use of their buildings. 2. They may, at pleas
. A complete treatise on merinos and other sheep, with plates . ying it. 3. The lambs cannot s;et under, so as to be caught there,and be suffocated in the dung, as happens too often with racksthat have vacant spaces beneath them. To these general advantages, may be added the following. 1. Th?y arc moveable, and may be transported at pleasure,without the aid of a u orkman ; they may be fixed and unfixedas need requires ; and this is very advantageous, both to farmerswho only hire their farms, and to proprietors who maywish to change, for a time, the use of their buildings. 2. They may, at pleasure, be converted into double racks. All that is necessary, for this purpose, is to plant postsfour leet high and six iect apart, and to susjiend the racks fromthem back to back ; they are joined at the hind part of the largeboard of the manger, and rest perfccly well one against another. In order to do still l)etter, the inlervals between these postssiiould be filled with deal boards, or bricks, or with lathand ]ila<l:ei. or with mortar. PLATE J. Page aumiHft 3 4 6 [ 57 ] 3. They aftord room for the sheep to lie down ; because;being suspended from above and tapering oil towards thewall were they end in an angle, they leave all the space free tothe foot of the walls ; an advantage which cannot be had withracks whose mangers rest upon masonry or timber. 4. They are very solid, as may be seen ^ in the plate, byinspecting tlie ditlerent peiccs of which they are made, 5. Lastly, they are not costly, if they be made with a view toeconomy in countries where wood is cheap, as they requhreneither timber-work nor masonry. Explanation of Plate1. The rack is composed of two similar frames of oak, one ateach extremity; a single cross-bar of oak unites them in front atthe top. The pieces numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6, are of oak, 2 inches square,planed, and mortised together. The three boards which compose the manger are of pine orwhite wood, the rails of the rack are fixed below in the larg
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