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LAMB CREEP.
C— lenient Device For Feeding Ireunbe Be
fore They Are Weaned.
To feed grain to lambs it is best to
have a part of a pen or corner of a field
fitted for this purpose, so that the lambs
may have a special place to feed. In a
hen in the shed a corner may he easily
divided off and in the field a sheltered
place where the flock may be in the
A. Peg for shifting eliding frame. B. Sliding
frame. C. Horizontal rollers. D. Upright roll
ers.
habit of gathering should be selected.
The simplest way of making a lamb
creep is to take two Btrips, long enough
to reach across the corner of the pen and
strong enough to hold Btiffly the narrow,
npright pieces that should be nailed to
them abont one foot apart at first.
As the lambs grow, the spaces between
the Uprights must be increased. An in
genious and very useful construction
specially devised for this purpose is
shown in the picture. It can he readily
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the opening may be easily changed by
shifting the peg at A By doing that the
Bliding frame, B, is moved, and that
throws the upright rollers, D, closer or
farther apart. The scale of the plan is
one inch to the foot.
The framework of the creep is made
of light, fiat, iron strips. The upright
and horizontal rollers are made of hard
wood, abont 2 inches in diameter. The
creep is 8 feet 4 inches high and 4 feet 6
inches wide. The stationary, upright
rollers are a foot apart aud 2 feet long.
The illustration shows the creep opened
as wide as possible. The two end strips
of iron are extended so that the creep
may be readily driven into the ground,
and hy running a board partition from
either side it is easy to separate a small
apartment for the lambs, either in the
sheds or fields.
Inside the apartment for the lambs we
have a small wooden trough that is spe
cially suited for feeding lambs. It dif
fers from an ordinary grain trough for
feeding grain to sheep in that" a narrow
strip runs along the top of the trough
about eight inches above the center of
the part of the trough that holds the
grain. This is to keep the lambs ont of
the trough. In crowding for .their feed
they would get into the trongh with their
feet and snoil the food if it were not
for this arrangement.— Professor J. A
Cfeatir. Wisconsin Experiment Station,
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