Equipment 99 



will probably be the best. If a larger number of cattle 

 are to be handled than can be held conveniently in a 

 fifty-foot corral, two small corrals will be very much better 



Fig. 9. — Model Corral System. 



than one large one. There is no greater convenience on 

 the stock farm than a set of corrals that can always be 

 depended on to hold anything and everything that is 

 put into them. (See Fig. 9.) 



SCALES 



. The old system of selling cattle by the head is dis- 

 appearing so rapidly that every well-equipped stock ranch 

 now has wagon and stock scales. When such scales are 

 intended for stock use only, or for wagon use only, the 

 location and equipment are easily arranged; but in case 

 they are to be used for both cattle and wagons, some little 

 study and ingenuity may be required to place them so that 

 both may be weighed conveniently. It will be necessary, 

 of course, to have them placed adjoining the corrals or 



