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Show THOUGH FOK FEEDING SIIEEP. I Uso 2x4 s, four feet long, for cornor posts. Theso are Hat two feet apart, and a four-Inch tiough Is built one foot from tho ground, using- two 12-inch 12-inch boards for tho bottom of tio ! trough At the top of tho rack on the end, a 12-Inch board Is sawed to a bovel and nailed as shown. A 12-lnch board Is then nailed .along this hovel on olthoi sldo at the top of t,hc rack. This gives a wide apco to put In the hny, etc., so It will feed down gradually. Bolow this is nallod a 6-lnch 6-lnch fence-board, J LL-""" A Jm-HJ Common i"i-lnch tuni'lng boards are used for slats, which shpuldbo cut 1 about two and one-half fC't long In ' order to lap enough for nulling to the top of tho irough and the bottom of Ihe fi-lnch board near tho top of tho ' rack. Tho slats should tio set about 1 clKht inches apart. ThH gives each sheop fourteen Inches of feeding space, and thMy sheop can feed at a 2 6-foot trough. 'The trough can bo- used for feeding either grain or roughagQ. W-H. Underwood. t |