. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. 230 HAT BACKS, ETC. one side, are often constructed like one side of the box rack and attached to the walls by stay-laths. Some arrange them so that they can be raised as the manure accumulates; but there is no need of this if they are made with the bottom boards a foot instead of nine inches wide, and if the manure is cleaned out as often as it should be. But a far neater and more convenient wall rack, having troughs also connected with it, was invented by Mr. Virtulan Rich, of Richville, V
. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. 230 HAT BACKS, ETC. one side, are often constructed like one side of the box rack and attached to the walls by stay-laths. Some arrange them so that they can be raised as the manure accumulates; but there is no need of this if they are made with the bottom boards a foot instead of nine inches wide, and if the manure is cleaned out as often as it should be. But a far neater and more convenient wall rack, having troughs also connected with it, was invented by Mr. Virtulan Rich, of Richville, Vermont. * The following cut, from a drawing kindly furnished me by that gentleman, gives an easily understood general view of it:. WALL BACK AND TROITGH. a, Plank i inches thick and 9 inches wide, placed 20 inches from wall («,) to form bottom rail of outside rack. ft, Scantling 3 by 3 inches, forming top rail of outside rack. c. Bottom of trongh, being a board placed on floor, or if there is no floor, on dcantUng to raise it sufficiently from ground. d. Hoard five inches wide, to support the board 4 inches wide, which forms bottom of the inside rack (/.) These would be better made of plank. Bottom of inside rack should be G inches above bottom of trough. tf. Outside wall of barn or stable. /, Inside rack hung with hinges to bottom board. It is made by nailing slats IK inches wide, 3 inches apart, on upper and lower rails, which are about IK by 2 inches in diameter. a. Slats to outside rack 7 inches wide and 7 inches apart. A, Slanting board, from bottom of inside rack to bottom of trough and forming back side of trongh. The end-views of the same rack (on next page) render the details of its construction a little more apparent. The left hand cut shows the inside rack (/,) in its place as when fiUed with hay. In the right hand cut, it is turned up or thrown * I have previously, in this volume, named the Messrs. Rich as of Shoreham. This is the name of the town in A^hich they re
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