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The Shed. 



This is a useful structure during winter-time in 

 affording shelter to stock that is unable to face the 

 rigours of a really severe season, and for this reason 

 care must be taken to render it as warm as means 

 and circumstances will permit. A good shed is half 

 the battle in pulling calves and weakly beasts through 

 a long and trying winter of storms and blizzards. A 

 plentiful supply of hay is the other, and perhaps more 

 important, half, everything considered. 



The dimensions of your shed should be governed 

 by the amount of stock you intend to invest in when 

 your building arrangements are complete, allowing a 

 good margin for increase within the next few years. 

 Assuming, therefore, that you contemplate putting 

 50 cattle or 150 sheep on to the range, you would 

 require a shed accommodation of 128 square feet — 

 that is to say, the boarded sides of the erection should 

 be 32 feet in length on each of its four sides. This 

 is amply large enough to allow for any small augmen- 

 tation of your bunch that you may contemplate, 

 as well as the arrival of calves. A rough building 

 such as this can always be enlarged by the addition 

 of a panel or two at any time, with no further outlay 

 beyond the cost of rough lumber for the sides and 

 nails, provided you use trees as the posts. Horses 



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