Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-02-21
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IFrom the Ohio UaIuFaIlF
The Curb-Western Stock Feeders,

IQ6 JuIu-W 6olOAA ObVNA NN@
Col. HARRs:-Permit me TO offer you my
hearty thanks for your humane and exeenen'
article on the abuse of the eurb-rein, as prac-
deed on that noble. Indispensable animal, lhe
horse. in your firsl number OF the CuluYa1or
for tbis wear. The abuse Is not only general
mt amost inbuman one, and il your State Le' |
g;sIatnre now in Session would pass slrin-
Sept penal law against its practice it would re-
sult 10 great benefit to your horses, and per-
haps set your people 10 IhiOking on one oil The
departments Of eraelty 10 animals.
Another subject Of the same paper; unnd-
ing feed for stock, is most important. DO your
Western farmers know the fact that as now led
TO hogs, cattle and sheep, full one>third Of
their valuable corn crops are utterly wasted?
So It is, and SO any thinking man can prove
Corn wears ago, was worth ten cents bushel
in Ohio. Now it is worth thirty TO ilty cents
and so It will be hereafter. In stock feeding
particularly in faitening animals, the western
farmers must adopt The grinding of their grain
stabng their bulocks, and shelering their hogs
aud sheep, and feeding them on ground iced
as the Yankees do, or il will be losing busl>
ness. II hardly pays nov, at present prces Of
corn, and lean stock-so they say-and unless
different mode is adopted they mast give IL
lup. The stockfeeders ara all afraid OF labQrl
Is not the extra labor of feeding as feeding
shoulI be done, quite as well paid, as in rails
ling the additional quantity OF corn to be thrown
away in theirpresent Wasteiul mode OF feeding!
[ think one-haf the labor may be saved; and
even two thirds Of it, 1t is amazing, to an
eastern man, who rides through the rich ca tie
and hog feeding countries of the West, to see
so few barns and shelter Of any kind Tor their
stock. Your weather is subject 10 more Ire
A ouenL changes Of cold to warm weather, ant
. vice versa, than ours. and the extremes arr
$ quite as great. And yet the feeding stool
n have no protection from the cold and wet G
= your hardest storms. There are days, week
even, ,inwhieh neither bullock nor hog can gai
q a pound of flesh, with the best of feeding.
n takes all the carbon that their food can gener
ate in the body to keep up their animal warmth
. without giving them any increase oil flesh. Ant
vet the feeders, don't seem to know 1t, or iflhe.
do, are To regardless of their interests to a.
: mend their practice.
You may ride throug gh the SOOta Valley-Ih
richest corn. cattle and hog feeding valley
perhaps in the world, and you can hardly
count dozen good barns, out Of the towns 81
you may 60 west, through the great cattle dis
tricts of Madison, Clark, Greene, Champaign
q and Montgomery, clear on to the MISSISSIPPI
= The farmers are rich, their thousands OF acre'
|, in single farms, while houses for themselve
'' and families, and paltry log novels Tor thel
work horses, with occasional exceptions OF be
- ter stuCtures, are all the farm buildings yc
will see. Millions of bushels Of corn, and tho'
sands Of tons Of corn fodder and hay, are ey
ry year wasted for want Of barns, sheds, anG
little horse power machinery. Rely upon
ID your western stock men have got TO erect goo
ie and comfortable buildings on theirfarms Tor Il
TX accommodation of their stock in order to NAL
81 their business pay. The expenditure oil o
40 to three thousand dollars in barns and out-hou
IN es on farm is small per centage OF outl
Ae for permanent structures, while the saving
eP labor, food, and growth in the stock will retu
ne twenty per cent. annually on their cost
ne A NORTHERN MAN
Black Rock, N. Y, January, 1856.