The horse and other live stock . serted bj little doors in the ends. What is termed the hopper-rack, serving both for a rackand a feeding-trough, is a favorite with many sheep-owners. The accompanying cutrepresents a section ofsuch a rack. A pieceof durable wood, aboutfour and a half feetlong, six or eightinches deep, and fourinches thick, havingtwo notches, a a, cutinto it, and twotroughs, made of inch boards, b b, placed in these notches,and nailed fast, constitute the formation. If the rack is tobe fourteen feet long, three sills are required. The ends ofthe rack are made by nailing aga
The horse and other live stock . serted bj little doors in the ends. What is termed the hopper-rack, serving both for a rackand a feeding-trough, is a favorite with many sheep-owners. The accompanying cutrepresents a section ofsuch a rack. A pieceof durable wood, aboutfour and a half feetlong, six or eightinches deep, and fourinches thick, havingtwo notches, a a, cutinto it, and twotroughs, made of inch boards, b b, placed in these notches,and nailed fast, constitute the formation. If the rack is tobe fourteen feet long, three sills are required. The ends ofthe rack are made by nailing against the side of the sill-boardsthat reach up as high as it is desired to have the rack; andnails driven through these end-boards into the ends of the side-boards, //, secure them. The sides may be further strength-ened by pieces of board on the outside of them, fitted into thetrough. A roof may be put over all, if desired, by means ofwhich the fodder is kept entirely from the weather, and noseeds or chaff can get into the THE HOPPEK-RACS. TROUGHS, Threshed grain, chopped roots, etc., when fed to sheep,should be placed in troughs. With either of the racks whichhave been described, except the last, a separate trough would BARNS AND SHEDS. 151 be required. The most economical are made of two boards ofany convenient length, ten to twelve inches wide. Nail thelower side of one upon the edge of the other, fastening bothinto a two or three-inch plank, fifteen inches long, and a foot
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