EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR A BAND OF SHEEP 



Camp Expenses, per Month. 



407 



Equipment Required for a Band o Sheep. The equipment 

 necessary for handling a band of sheep may be divided into three 

 classes as follows: winter, summer,, and lambing equipment. In 

 some places, particularly in the Southwest, topography of the sum- 

 mer and winter range is so nearly alike that the same equipment 

 will serve for both. 



In winter when the sheep are on the plains, the equipment 

 centers about the sheep wagon, which is a large, strongly-built 

 vehicle with a canopy top. It has to be capacious, for it serves 

 as a dwelling for two men, and it must be strong in order to with- 

 stand the strain incident to travelling over rough ground. It pro- 

 vides room for a bed, a stove used both for cooking and heating, 

 a complete kit of the utensils necessary for cooking and eating, and 

 a store of food for the men, and grain for the horses. Two good 

 horses of draft type are needed to draw the wagon and they must 

 be fitted with good strong harness (Fig. 227). 



In addition to the horses for the wagon there must be at least 

 one saddle horse which a camp-tendier uses in various ways. Fre- 

 quently two light horses and a spring wagon form a part of the 

 equipment. With this light wagon the camp-tender goes for 

 provisions for the camp. 



The cost 1 of a fully equipped sheep wagon, which will wear from 

 four to seven years according to the treatment it receives and the 

 nature of the ground over which it is drawn, is approximately 

 $350. The teams used on these wagons cost from $400 to $600 



1 Costs obtained before the United States entered the war. 



