Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-01-28
a FsICUL TURAl.
From the American Farm

L rom The American Farmer.
BREEDING MARES-These animals, du-
ring The lueiemencg Of the winter and spring,
shoGld be te object Of the Farmers care They
should be moderately fed with grain-oats is best;
and plentiiuliy fed with good hay or fodder, and
III theit stabhg treatment receive every atten-
ton paid 10 The working horses. 1t is best that
IN good weather they should have access to lot.
for tue purpose OF exercise, that being equally es-
sentlal TO their own health TO the full develop
ment and growth Of their foals Nor should it be
be forgotten that, like the other animals, they
should be watered twice day, and receive semi
weekly allowances Of salt, or Of the mixture of
salt, ashes and lime before recommended
YOUNG C0LIS.-lt is mistaken idea that
colts should be kept upon lor diet; that notion
is equally absurd, as i, would be to keep them up
on the high pressure sysem.-to stuff them into
a state Of dseased obesity They should however
have comfortable dry sheds, accessible to wards
their stalls be supplied with bedding, receive, at
least twice a day, halls gallon Of oats, with good
hay morning, n0on, ard night, be brushed down
twice day with a Wisp of straw, and be sailed
twice week, OF as often receive an ounce of the
mixture If salt, ashes, and lime, before spoken Of
and thrice day to be waerad. With this treat
ment there would be prospect that their growth
Of bone and muscle would be regularly carried on.
NtLGH AND Is CALF COWS.-Care
should be taken that these generous creatures
should be kept well protected from the weather.
Ia good dry sheds, facing the South, well bcdded.
The mich cows, in addition to their long food.
should receive, night and morning, messes of sue
culent matter Of some kind: the ncalf COWS
should be we'll toddered, up to week or ten days
OF their time Of cavng and receive similar mes
ses as the fnieh cows.
The curry comb, card brush, and wisp of
straw, applied to their hides daily, is equal to a
quart oleofn daily. any time they should also be
watefed thrice t.ay, and be saled, as advised
for the other stock.
YOUNG CATTLE should be kept in sepa-
rate yafd be protected by shed facing the south
which should be hedded, aud open upon yard
where they could take exercise They should re-
ceve 6nitlclency OF hay, d cut to them three
lines day, to keep them in constantly growing I
state. lfyoa desire them to 5e Of portly dimen-
sions, yoa should give them. in the shape of food
wherewllh to form bones, muscles, and flesh out
Of besides allowances Of hay and fodder, or corn
husks and tops, chopped oats, or cut cornstalks,
dried with care, would effect this object quart
OF the chopped OATS OF the same quantity of the
meal, mixed with peck of the cut hay, fodder. I
sc, # given once day, would be enough. They,
like the other stock, must be watered sailed &C.
CORN.COB CRUSHER-Eiavey YOU one Of
these useful implements? If Tot get one without
delay, and have all your corncobs saved and
it mixed with hafa bushcl Of cnt-straw, lnoisten-
ed with two gallons of boiling water, if covered
over till coo enough to be fed, will form an ad-
mrable mess for milch-cow. Then why throw
your cobs away? Would it not be better to buy
crusher, and work them into milk, cream, and |
butter2 We think 1t would. Five bushels Of
cohs is as nutritve, any day, as half that quantity
ofmeal, fed as we advise and will make more
muscle, bone and flesh.
BREEDING SOWS AND STORE PIGS.
Feed them with moderate Iiberality, and keep
them busy at work all the winter in the manufac-
lure Of manure for your spring crops. Let their
pen be supplied with dry lodgings and bedding,
give them access to Il yard covered with so or
hundred load Of woods mould, marsh mud, or any
other crude substance, and by next spring they will
have manipulated the whole mess into most ex-
eellent manure. They are industrious creatures,
food of plants The solid and liquid excretions
OF The hog have most sovereign virtue in them
TO promote the growth Of plants.