. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. FAKMER THRIFTY'8 MODE OF PROTECTION. covered with slough hay or straw, and slabs, or poles, filled in betAveen with such litter as stock will not cat, tte whole tirnily
. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. FAKMER THRIFTY'8 MODE OF PROTECTION. covered with slough hay or straw, and slabs, or poles, filled in betAveen with such litter as stock will not cat, tte whole tirnily pounded down to muke it wind proof. This, if well made and so low as just to adnnt a man to Avalk under, is both cheap and Avarnv. Another cheap form of shed or shelter from storms is made by setting posts firmly in the ground in two lines, sawing the tops level, fastening on plate pieces, laving on scantling for tlie peak, supported temporarily, and nailing on Ijoards, 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 the prevailing winds come. If twelve feet l)oards are used for the roof, a shed may thus be made over twenty feet wide, that will furnish good shelter for stock cattle where forage is cheap. A Framed Shed. A still better shed ma}'^ be made by running the posts up eighteen feet, framing in cross-ties to support a floor. In the upper twelve feet of this shod a good deal of fodder may be stored, to be fed from when the weather is too inclement to allow it to be handled on wagons. From this wo may go on to more and more elaborate structures until we come to the l)arn proper. On all well onlered farms the owner fully appreciates the importance of shelter. Hence we see the feeding yards with one or two sides pro- tected with more or less serviceal)le shed, until ui)on some farms we lind tho feeding yards entirely surrounded with this means of Winter pro- tection. Ill
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