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Show GOOD FEED-RACK FOR SHEEP Grain Trough Placed Beneath Saves Chaff and Leaves, Most Nourishing Part of Feed. (By J. W. GOODWIN.) The rack Is made with a pole for the bottom rail and a piece of 2x6 inch scantling for the top rail. The ciiSsbars are pieces riven from an old piece of timber. These crossbars are four feet long and about one and one-half inches in diameter, shaved smooth with a drawing-knife. The holes in the top Riul bottom rails are made with an inch-auger. The crossbars are trimmed to fit the holes and then wedged to hold them The bottom rail is held in place against the side of the barn by two Pllll Feed Rack for Sheep. strips of heavy sheet-iron which has been bent to fit around the pole. The top rail is secured by a piece of half-inch rope which passes over a pulley located in a hole in the wall above the rack, a weight being attached at-tached to the outside end of rope, serving to always keep the rack against the wall. When the hay Is put In, the rack is drawn down, and when filled is pushed back against the wall, holding the hay in place closely and kept In place by the weight. The grain trough placed beneath and in front of the rack serves as a receptacle for the chaff and leaves of the hay the best and most nourishing nourish-ing part of the feed which would otherwise be pulled under foot and lost as food. |