292 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



from two hundred down to fifty cattle each, as the various lots, 

 in numbers, may require accommodation. These yards are all 

 supplied with racks and mangers for feeding, troughs for water- 

 ing, (the water being let in from aqueducts,) and well roofed 

 o'ver head, with abundant room for the animals to lie down and 

 rest at pleasure. Hay and grain barns are conveniently situated 

 on the premises, and the forage, accurately weighed and brought 

 in on wagons, distributed at any and all hours when demanded. 

 The rail tracks run close on two sides of the yards, for ingress 

 and egress, as occasion may demand. Everything relating to 

 the comfort and convenience of stock of every description, is 

 compact and commodious, with perfect safety to animals, and their 

 keepers, and the dispatch of whatever business relates to them. 

 Several thousand cattle, besides swine, and sheep, weekly, are 

 thus entered and distributed, with less labor and inconvenience 

 than a third of the numbers could be in a common yard, and 

 under the ordinary management so long practiced with the old 

 and less matured system, under which the business has hereto- 

 fore been managed. Yards of like character have been fitted 

 up at other large railway centers, and will probably soon become 

 quite common on all the leading cattle routes to market. 



