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Botes, Communications, anb 
•Reviews. 
COVERED CATTLE-YARDS. 
In connection with the article on Covered Yards which Mr. Moscrop 
wrote for the last number of the Journal, it may be interesting to 
give the cost of a yard which my bailiff, Mr. Reid, has recently 
erected on one of my farms at Cattail, Yorkshire. 
The yard is 61 feet square. One side is bounded by the wall of 
the existing farm-buildings, and the other three sides are built with 
railway-sleepers placed perpendicularly, and home-gi'own larch. 
The uprights in the yard, and in the exterior fencing, are made of 
peeled larch — whole trees of about forty years' growth, which were 
cut down eighteen months ago. The sleepers were picked ones, and 
sawn down the middle ; so that the thickness of the wall is half the 
thickness of an ordinary sleeper, and ■ the horizontal bracings are 
battens 2^ inches by 7. The walls are about 9 feet in height inside the 
yard, the sleepers being 1 foot deep in the ground inside, and 
2 feet outside ; and there is a space of about 2 feet 6 inches 
between the top of the fence and the eaves of the roof, which over- 
hang a little. 
The roof is in two spans running parallel to the existing build- 
ings ; and the gable-ends are boarded down to the same level as the 
eaves. A stable in the old buildings has been converted into a 
turnip-house, with a door into the new yard ; and there is also a 
gateway out of the yard into the fields. The whole is well spouted, 
and the rain-water utilised for a galvanised iron trough in \he yard, 
the overflow from which is carried away in the drain, so as to prevent 
any stagnation of water round the circuit of the foundation. 
The roof is of timber, constructed as described by Mr. Moscrop 
in the Journal. The cost of the yard has been : — 
£ i. <r. 
Turchased timber 49 5 0 
Larch posts (estimated) 4 0 0 
Sleepers, sawing, carriage, &lc 10 17 6 
Gate and posts 110 
Carpenters' time 11 0 0 
Masons' time 0 13 4 
Draining-tiles, drainers' time, Sec. . . .420 
Iron-work, spouting, &c 18 14 10 
99 13 8 
