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nobody should have any difficulty in making up for 

 himself." 



Combined &ether and Shelter. 



The chief objection to tethering a goat is that the 

 animal is exposed to sudden storms of wind and rain, and 

 it may be drenched before it can be freed from its tether 

 and brought under cover. Anyone who has witnessed the 

 frantic efforts of a goaf to get loose under such circum- 

 stances for these animals, as I have said, have a great 

 objection to rain will appreciate this fact. I have tried 

 various devices for overcoming the difficulty, such as 

 fastening the end of the tether to a kind of dog-kennel 

 structure on wheels, pinning this down to the ground with 

 an iron rod. so that it cannot be dragged about by the goat. 

 In nearly all these arrangements, however, the goat 

 manages to get its tethering-chain wound up or caught in 

 some way, and its comparative freedom becomes then cur- 

 tailed or absolutely annulled. The best plan I have 

 found to effect the object desired is to use 5oyd. 

 lengths, or longer, of thick galvanised wire if expense be 

 no object, preferably that made of a number of strands of 

 thin wire twisted together, as used for clothes-lines. This 

 wire is pinned securely down at each extremity, care being 

 taken that the pins do not project above ground and thus 

 catch and arrest the tethering-chain. The pins in this 

 case should be of the pattern shown in the illustration of 

 the toggle tether, having an eye in which a ring or spring- 

 less hook is fitted, and the length of the pin should be 

 quite i5in. The tethering-chain used here may be short, 

 say the length of an ordinary dog-chain, as the springless 

 hook which catches into and runs along the wire as the 

 goat moves gives the whole length of that wire at which 

 to pasture from. At one end of this wire a movable 

 shelter may be placed, at such a distance that the goat 



