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 
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Fic. 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 
