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Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]
A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain. [2] As a result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn.
The Clemson College Sheep Barn (Barnes Center) is a two-story barn built in 1915 on the Clemson University campus. It is the oldest surviving building associated with agriculture on this land-grant university. [3] It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1990. [4]
The barn complex is remarkably intact when compared to the Burgett illustration and constitutes one of the best surviving examples of nineteenth century stock and sheep farms in the state. The English barn is the second from the left as pictured in the Burgett lithograph. The two larger barns in front were built to house horses and carriages.
Across the street stand two barns: a c. 1820 sheep barn, and an 1809 apple packing barn. Both have rubblestone foundations and timber framing, with clapboard walls. At the time of the property's National Register operation, most of the farm's 117 acres (47 ha) were in agricultural use as an apple orchard.
A field barn is an outbuilding located in a field, some distance ("further afield") from farmer's residence or the main cluster of buildings that constitute a farmstead. [1] Field barns were necessary when arable fields or valuable pastures were located some distance from a village or the residences of the agricultural workers who tended the ...
Pages in category "Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The contributing buildings are the house and banked barn (both c. 1830), a sheep barn (c. 1870), a hay shed and spring house (both c. 1880), and a privy (c. 1920). The house is a five-bay, center passage farmhouse with an attached rear kitchen; it was designed in a T-shaped floor plan.