What does "T-Down" mean?

[COEngineer]

I'm reading an old story (in a collection of short stories) about a Canadian Mounty. He's describing one of their cabins they maintained for the mounties to use when out patrolling. The quote is, "There had been nobody stationed in it since the T-Down fed its last hay almost two months before."

I tried googling it and all I got was football terms and feathers.

 

[FreezerHunter]

Perhaps the name of a ranch or cattle company?

 

[Gellar]

google says there was a T-down ranch in Saskatchewan which was bought by 76 ranch which appears to be the biggest ranch in the province. Circa 1915

 

[COEngineer]

Thanks guys! I didn't see these responses until now.