18 RANCHING IN THE CANADIAN WEST 



dumb friends. In many cases one man will expend 

 a hundred or so dollars to attain the particular 

 object he may have in view, whilst another, with a 

 fewposts, poles, and "brush " cut from a neighbouring 

 clump of bush, some turf, a little wire, a few nails, 

 and his own labour, will accomplish work which is 

 equally serviceable for the same intended purpose. 



I would always recommend your having shingle 

 roofs on the house and stable if you desire your own 

 and your work-horse's comfort in the spring. A 

 turf roof is excellent in winter, but it is apt to leak 

 badly when the snow is melting. 



On application by letter to the proprietors of the 

 paper, The Nor' -West Farmer, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

 (which you might, with considerable advantage to 

 yourself, subscribe to regularly, $1 per year), they 

 will send you plans for any sort of house or out- 

 building of which you require information for helping 

 you to build, with full details as to how to set 

 about it. 



The Corral. 



The corral should be sufficiently large, and made 

 of stout posts let into the earth (without being tarred) 

 2\ to 3 feet deep, with 4 to 4£ feet standing out of 

 the ground, to which three or four tiers of poles are 

 strongly fastened horizontally with thick wire. A 



