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Show FEEDING SHEEP IN OPEN. How Simple Cheap Shelter May Be Provided for Them. Sheep aro unlike any other' Uvo stock In that thoy do not require much protection from cold. Thcro aro a great many farmers who would like to take up tho business of sheep feed-Ing, feed-Ing, but feel unablo to mnko tho ncccssnry expenditure to furnish them wltli barns or sheds. In such ensos, whoro tho sheep aro bought In the -H lato fall and fed during tho winter months, an nrrangomcnt similar to the Illustration will bo found very sat-Isfactory, sat-Isfactory, remarks Farmers' Review. TIiIb trough can bu mado of any rough matorlal at a moderate cost. Posts should bo set (Irmly In the ground nbout six feet apart, extending some ton feet abovo tho surface. It Is a simple mattor to put tho rafters on and nnll n few shlnglo lath across theso sufllclcnt to hold a straw or fed-der fed-der roof. Racks nro built underneath as shown In the Illustration, and they aro provided with troughs for feeding Lm roots or screenings. An arrangement of this Bort can bo put up In somo placo convenient to tho barn, and thoro aro vory fow days In tho wlntor HJ when It will bo too stormy for tho sheep to food under It on one sldo or tho other. Theso feeding sheds should not bo ovor six feot long, as It would , Lm bo difficult to got the hay In them, but nt this longth.lt can easily bo poked In from tho ends with a long hnndlcd fork. With racks of this sort sheep will get along very woll oxcopt In m- Lm voro weather, and will need no other Lm protection except at such times. |