Covered Cattle Yards. 
481 
Yards Feet £ t. d. 
— 68 ran 3V x 21" framed struts . . . . @ .'2 0 11 4 
— 768 „ 6'"' x 2i' 7 purlins „ /3 9 12 0 
— 3,854 sup. 7" x *" twice grooved boarding, padded off 
purlins by galvanised-iron studs, and 
nailed with wire nails, per 100 feet . ,, 13/ 25 1 0 
• - — No. 4 wrought- iron f" bolts 1/6 0 6 0 
— — No. 2 cast-iron pillars and fixing . . . . „ 30/ 3 0 0 
16 — run cast-iron mid-gutter „ 2,6 2 0 0 
— — No. 6 wrought-iron intermediate band supports 
to same, l"x J" , 1 6 0 9 0 
31 — ran 5" half-round cast-iron eaves spouting and 
holdfast ,1/6 2 6 6 
14 — „ 3" circular cast-iron down piping . . „ 1/3 0 17 6 
£61 16 4 
The amount of this being 51/. 16s. 4d., shows the cost per 
square yard roofed over to be 3s. b\d. 
With reference to this, I may say that Mr. Cundy's quota- 
Fig. 5. — Plan of Mr. Dent's methods of connecting jwst, tie- 
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tions are much lower, ranging from 2s. to 3s. per yard, but his 
covering is only half an inch thick. One yard, 132 feet by 
00 feet, which I saw, was covered in 1880 at a cost of 150/. 9s 
which comes out at 3.9. Id. per yard, roofed over ; but he told me 
ne got the roofing done at 28s. per 100 feet super., whereas, at 
