After breakfast the men prepared to go out, visiting tenants, inspecting fences, mending wagons, and generally enjoying themselves.

Carefully inspect fences at least once a year, paying particular attention to these areas.

Cowboys inspecting fences on a ranch in Osage County last week found the carcasses of four bald eagles and 28 eagle feet, most of them missing two claws.

"Yes, it's stressful, but we think it's every Korean man's duty to serve his country here," Lieutenant Chung said as he inspected fences for signs of infiltration.

Apart from livestock duties a stock person will inspect, maintain and repair fences, gates and yards that have been broken by storms, fallen trees, livestock and wildlife.

There are plenty of jobs to be done, from inspecting fences and sheds for rotting or damage to kickstarting the compost heap.

A farmhand on a pony, who had been inspecting fences, saw it and rode to inquire.