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Show BARN FOR SWINE AND SHEEP Illustrations Show How Missouri Farmer Changed Small Building In. to Commodious Structure. Tho accompanying Illustrations show how a Missouri farmer solved t.bo problem of changing a small barn Into a commodious structure for feeding feed-ing sheep and hogs. While there is nothing very complicated or out of the ordinary in this building it will perhaps help some one who contemplates contem-plates a change in his live ftock, says the Homestead. In this particular Instance In-stance it has been decided to change from steers to hogs and sheep and to i i ' I '" 1 ra a t t Tr'rrp J I ' t coa S l7 c'" :iTrr rrrrrrrrriwu.litaii'i v.v, zgnr 4 a c c f Combined Hog and Sheep Barn. do so required a building in which to feed them. The old barn formerly used for storing hay a part of the season and for a cattle shelter the remaining re-maining time had the two sheds added add-ed on either side as shown in the exterior ex-terior view and the floor plan. The Did building was divided into corn cribs, lead room, grain room,' etc. The sheds were arranged as shown on the floor plan, one side for hogs and the jthcr side for sheep, the loft holding the rough feed for the sheep. In building the barn and installing the interior partitions, racUs, troughs, etc., ; everything was so constructed that ' iu case a second change was made necessary by the ever lluctuat-ing lluctuat-ing price of live stock the Interior arrangement ar-rangement could be rearranged at a minimum cost. |