BUILDINGS. 621 



was to build a barn, twenty-four feet by tliirty-two feet, with 

 twelve feet posts, for my horses and bulls and milch cows. For 

 the protection of my other cattle, I built a shed, twenty-eight 

 feet wide and ninetj'-six feet long, boarded with common boards 

 and covered with shingles, and divided into two parts, with 

 yards to each part; one, twenty-eight by forty feet for my 

 calves, the other, twenty-eight by fifty-six feet for grown cattle. 

 In the line of fence dividing the two cattle yards, I have put 

 up a Halliday windmill pump, with a trough sixteen feet long, 

 in each yard, and so arranged that I can keep the troughs 

 always full of clear, pure, fresh water. I believe that if I had 

 a stream of water running through my farm, I should keep my 

 cattle away from it, and use a windmill pump to supply them 

 with pure, clean, cool, fresh water. In these yards I have 

 racks or bins to feed hay from, made by setting cedar posts 

 solidly in the ground every six feet, and to these spiking and 

 bolting two by six timbers, twenty-eight inches from the 

 ground, then boarding tight from there to the ground, making in 

 reality, a box twenty-eight inches deep. Two feet above these 

 two by six pieces, I bolt another two by six timber to the 

 posts, to prevent the cattle getting into the feed bin or rack, 

 but allowing them to run their heads in and eat without wast- 

 ing. This rack is eight feet wide and one hundred feet long 

 in each yard, and needs filling up with hay about once in three 

 days. My sheds are intended only for shelter from storms and 

 cold, and to sleep in, but are made so that in case of a pro- 

 tracted storm they can be fed in them. In these sheds I have 

 small boxes of salt, so placed that cattle can go to them at will 

 and lick. 



My corral is so arranged that cattle are let run from it 

 into the pasture, and during the hot days in Summer the gate 

 is left open, so that they can have access to the water at will. 



FEEDING. 



I do not aim to feed my cattle other than hay, except in 

 cold and stormy weather, except my bulls, calves and milch 

 cows. These I always keep well fed, using chopped feed of 



