Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
Agritntural.
Care Of Farm Stock.

Winter has come and cattle can hDd but
l;ttle 10 The beds, though the ground is
b.re. Let them now have a supply from the
tzres. IL is rot good policy TO P'nch them
tbs fare part OF winter.
Z the ground is frozen fast, cattle will
sste much, though The hay and sta ks
Be seai.efed around the cow yard Vet
better to have racks around he yard,
15gh they consist Of posts and rails onlIg
kseks in a coward anelst te be square
sund. like a hay stack Then cattle
moi so good a chance 10 corner each
: and take an undue advantage of r0si-
L ,ng racks are Of little use compared
<seir length.-One animal viii drive
III others FIR a rack fifteen feet long;
a syuare rack, four feet each way. VIII
eoumodate four animals without me risk
cornering or fighting at q disadvantage
number Of cattle are seen around a small
lex Of hay. and the underings seem in no
Dr. Of the master cattle. For they can fr
from the stack in a tangent, aud be al
bee clear Of the hons u their ASSISTANTS
But the coas and old cattle may be tied
% with easy bows or chains where their
food is To be supplied with more regularity.
The owner OF cattle thus lied, usually takes
care to place before them a email quantity
at q time. He feeds Them not less than
twice in the morning before he turns them
out TO water. and to pick up tine scaiterings
30 the yard.
But FARMERS wish large stocks Of cait'e
~ a13igef To depend On others IN a sreai
) hireI;ngs, as the Scripture saith.
1{any Of these will pre- er to feed ont al
ones what would answer for the VIII re day
Il Is a short cut Tor foGdering. and the
owns must see to the business, or his cat
lie viii coms out poor in the spring.
Cattle must have water, of cOu Sc, and
tha warmest water in winter is best. A
deep well 2fforis warm water, but It soon
coois in the trough. Farmers wno are so
located Us 20 have runBing water IRON high
springs, can VERY easily have warm wster
in their yards through the day. The lead
pipe which conveys the water may BE- made
D pass thro gh a freplsce' or q stbye at u
very little cost. tbe:Se to the trough in The
yard. Farmers who supply mix through
the winter season, would fad their account
in furnishing warm wafer for their COWS
10 that season.
CARDrsG CATrLE-We think there is 70
doubt That grown cattle need to be daily
sarded. Young cattle may do well enough
Without q card, but the old ones houlj have
heir hides scratched 10 keep the Lores o:
the skin open. Card them at a certain time
fday, and they will ike the operation.
Pigs and hogs like to be carded, but we
cannot spare time TO crafty them. They
must be satisfied withholding against a POSI-
in of the pen.
LICE ON YOUNG CATTLE.-Lpok c.osel!
into the coats OF young cattle now, ami lei
not any Yermin live on their necks and backs
1t is an easy matter to kill these lice: an'
as al lousy cattle come out poor in the
spring, i; is barbsrous to let scch small
mites aslice have their own way through
the winter.
Farmers find out the spring that thei
calves are poor and lousy, and they make q
stir for a remedy.
Any greasy NATTER well rubbed in, Wi
kTlI these Ices Ashes sifted on their back:
will do it. Yellow snuff costs but little.
and lie better than the juice OF tobacco. Fine
sand siited On them will drive of lice; the
only objection to sand is thit it causes 81
itching on old cattle in the spring.