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CIRCULAR 82, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



CORRALLING 



CORRALS ^ 



Along the Alaskan coast, where most of the herds are located, cor- 

 rals are usually placed on a dry sand spit adjoining the beach. First, 

 heavy spruce posts are set in the ground and then joined at the top 

 by cross poles approximately 5 feet from the ground. Split spruce 

 poles 7 feet long are then nailed upright, with a slight outward slant, 

 against the cross poles about 2 inches apart, with the lower ends 

 sunk a few inches into the ground. The completed corral wall pre- 



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Figure 1. — Highly successful corral of the chute type. It is important that the 

 leadway into the holding pens be constructed on tlie side of the corral to meet the 

 direction in which the herd mills. The movable wire-burlap fence is useful in 

 cutting off bunches of stock from the main herd 



sents a palisade effect. Instead of a regular gate, a portion of the 

 fence is made movable at a place where the animals can be driven in. 



The main inclosure, into which the animals are first driven, is 

 circular in shape and from 50 to To yards in diameter. A swinging 

 gate at one side leads into a small circular pocket about 10 yards 

 in diameter, a wing or hook being constructed from one side of the 

 gate extending into the main corral to direct the animals into the 

 pocket. At the farther side of this pocket a sliding gate opens into 

 another pocket almost as large, and at the other end of this pocket 



1 Further information on corralling is given in the following: Palmer, L. J. progress 



OF REINDEER GRAZING INVESTIGATIONS IN ALASKA, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bul. 1423, 37 p., lllUS. 



1926. (For sale by Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washing* 

 ton, D. C, at 15 cents a copy.) 



