Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
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wINTERING STOCK.

have sheds erected without delay.
Mich cows should be provided with warm
comfortable dry lodgings, which should be
supplied with litter twice week; they
should be curried. or combed, and rubbed
down with whisp of straw daily, watered
night and morning, and be given an ounce
or two Of salt twice a week, or the same
quantity of a mixture of oyster shells, lime,
ashes and salt. They should have free
access to an enclosed yard-which should
be provided with rough materials-at all
times.
Ifeconomy should be consulted, all their
fodder. hay. straw or stalks, will be cut.
TO enSue their giving milk, the food of the
cows should be cut hay fodder, straw or
stalks, mixed with cob-meal, corn meal,
bran, shorts, or roots of some kind which
should be formed into slop. This given
twice day with good feed of long pow
ender in their racks at night. will carry
them comfortably through the winter, en-
able them to give generous sups of milk.
end be turned to their pastors in good
condition in the spring.
No roots should be fed to cattle without
being mixed with cut hay, fodder or corn
stalks.
YorNG CATTLE.-Ifyou wish to raise well
sized full developed animals you must
give the young creatures plenty of food
When we say plenty, we do not mean that
you should keep them fat like show beeves
for that would be an unhealthy condition;
but we mean. that you should keep them
in good growing conditiUu-thaty you should
90 feed them as that they shall have where
withaf to build up their frames.
They should be provided with good,
dry, comfortable shed. facing the South or
Southeast, protected from the North or
Northwest winds; attached to which
should be covered some inches deep with
wordsworth or some kindred substances:
the yard should be dish-Iike in form
The floor of the shed. whether earth or
boards, should be one inch or two higher
than the yard. to ensure dryness and
comfort.
These young cattle should be fed thrice
day, with long povender. in the rack of
their sheds, twice a week they should re-
ceive an additional feed of grain-oats if
possible. They should be watered twice
day, sailed. or given the salt. ashes and
lime mixture, twice week. Attention
must be paid to keep their lodgings under
the shed dry and clean.
Once or twice q week they should re-
ceive messes of chopt roots and cut hay or
straw-this latter food serves to keep the
bowels open, the skin free, and the blood
cool.
CARE OF SHEEP.-In the first place,
Sheep should be provided with ample and
warm Accommodations for shelter. There
fore. ifyou have not one already build shed
of sufficient dimensions to accommodate the
number of sheep you have to winter. II
the number of sheep be large have u shed
for every fifty or sixty head. Each shed
must communicate with an tightly enclo-
sed yard. Access to each shed must be
through an opening at one of the ends /;
ventilation other than the doorway must
be provided. The floor of the shed should
be covered in the first instance with or
inches in depth of clean straw, when
from the accumulation Of sheep dung and
discharge of urine the straw becomes dir
ty, the surface must be covered with fresh
straw. Plaster should be strewed over
the floor at least once week.
For convenience of feeding grain or
rt OTIS trough ranging round the shed
should be provided, The sheep should
have salt always accessible to them. The
best plan to secure this would be to have
a trough in which rOcE-S0H should be con-
Stantly kept.
The sheep should have access to the
yard at all times.
Three pounds of hay. or fodder, or its
equivalent in meal or roots per day will
sustain each head of sheep. which would
he frICn thpD 81,
in the morning. at noon. and at an hour
before sunset. Occasional feeds of roots,
say twice or thrice week. are conductive
to health-potatoes, or Rutabaga. or COM
mon turutps, carrots. parsnips, will an
swer.
Water should be given to the sheep twice
day, to wit, in the morning, and in the
evening.
Hous.-See to it. and have your fatten-
ing hogs regularly fed see that their
sleeping appointments are dry, warm and
well supplied with litter. which. at least
once a week should be removed, and fresh
litter put in its stead.
For their general treatment we refer you
to our remarks of last month.
Store Hogs should be provided with
good. warm. dry. well Uttered. sleeping
apartments throughout, the winter and
early spring. Their pens should be pro-
vided with two apartments-on for slee-
ping. the other for eating in. which should
be accessible to an enclosed yard, the sur
face of which should be covered with
rough materials to absorb the liquid vol
dings of the hogs.
The litter of their sleeping apartments
should be removed into the yard once a
week and spread over the surface, while
the sleeping apartments should as often be
supplied with fresh litter.
Each of the IN pig-sow should be pro-
vided with separate apartments to sleep
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