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covered with slough hay or straw, and slabs, or poles, filled in between 
with suoh litter as stock 
will not eat, the wholo 
firmly pounded down to 
make it wind proof. 
This, if well made and 
[So low as just to admit a 
man to walk under, is 
both cheap and warm. farmer thrifty’s mode of protection. 
Another cheap form 
of shed or shelter from storms is made by setting posts firmly in tho 
ground in two lines, sawing the tops levol, fastening on plate pieces, 
laying on scantling for the peak, supported temporarily, and nailing on 
boards, for a roof, at one-quarter pitch, up and down from the plates to 
the peak, covering the joints with wide battens and boarding up the side 
from whence tho prevailing winds come. If twelve feet boards are used 
for the roof, a shed may thus bo made over twenty feet wide, that nail 
furnish good shelter for stock cattle where forage is 'cheap. 
A Framed Shed. 
A still better shed may be made by running the posts up eighteen feet, 
framing in crosS-tios to support a floor. In tho upper twelve feet of this 
shed a good deal of fodder may bo stored, to bo fed from when tho 
weather is too inclement to allow it to ho handled on wagons. From this 
we may go on to more and more elaborate structures until we come to 
the barn proper. 
On all well ordered farms the owner fully appreciates tho importance 
of shelter. Hence we sco the feeding yards with one or two sides pro- 
tected with more or less serviceable shed, until upon some farms we find 
the feeding yards entirely surrounded with this means of Winter pro- 
tection. 
In all this the owner must be guided 
by his pecuniary means. If ho have 
not money enough to put up the bet- 
ter class of buildings, it by no means 
follows that ho is to leaye his stock 
without shelter until he is able to build. 
So far as tho simplest sheds are con- 
cerned, it is almost entirely a ques. 
ticn of labor. In the case of simple 
sheds of lumber, it is simply a ques. 
lion of the cost of boards and nails. 
Any intelligent farmer, assisted 
nouuvE peo' i muon, 
