Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-05-10
Rack for Nervous Ewes.

of themselves. This holder might be
very valuable to any farmer who has
stubborn ewes. We would especially
recommend it's use in small fiocks.
We saved all of our lambs last win
ter, which was quite a task. as they
were born early in the winter when
the weather was quite cold. We
found that by using the holder we
were born early in the winter when
less work
We make sheep holders of old fence
boards, which did very well, as we
find this material plenty strong, but
when the lambs tried to suck they let
us know that our device was not COM
plete. We therefore resorted to iron
rods, as shown in the cut and marked
X and l.. These are made adjustable
for different sizes of sheep as shown
in the cut by three rings which rep
resent the holes which were bored
through the corner posts.
We used the axies of an old chill
dren's playing wagon. These axles
answered the purpose very nicely as
they were just the right length. We
then sawed two boards "a inches long,
marked BIB in the cut. These were
nailed to the inside of the corner
posts. Then we attached a board
across the front end with a portion
marked in the cut, sawed off so as
to give plenty of room for the sleeps
throat enough to hold any of our
sheep. In starting the construction
we began with two boards, e and F,
about % inches long, to which we
nailed the bottom boards, which are
"a inches long. We made four posts
of fence boards 26 inches long. which
we attached to the bottom or floor,
one on each corner, as shown in the
cut These posts being marked A in
the sketch. We then proceeded with
our work and attached three boards at
ends on bottom, one in front and two
IN the rear. These we thought would
make the eve stand in proper posi-.
ton.
We next attached an old hinge to
board for the rear end of the holder,
which we then fastened to the hold
er by one nail through the bottom nail
hole in the hinge which allows the
board or end gate to drop down out
of the way This is quite convent
ence, as it is out of the way and is
not liable to be broken off by sheep
running against it. This board is
marked d in the cut. This door is
fastened shut by small hook which
goes over the nail in the end of the
door.
We then found that we must strap
our sheep in the holder to make them
secure. So we nailed straps to the
boards B B, two straps to go over the
Sleeps back and two straps to go un-
der the sleeps belly. These straps
as shown in the sketch, are marked o
N. They can be made adjustable by
putting any number Of holes in the
straps which may be found necessary
for the size of the sheep which the
holder is to accommodate. Four diff.
1erent straps are used for this pur-
pose, one end being securely nailed
to the board on the one side and the
other end being slipped over a nail,
(which makes 1t very convenient
fastening.
For making the iron rods stay in
place we fastened a wooden button,
as 1t is called, which holds the rods
in their place. We then inclosed the
front end by mailing boards on slant
ingly. This makes the holder much
more rigid than it would be were the
boards nailed on straight across; the
boards form very good brace in this
way.