The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-04-18
Care of Domestic Animals.

Care OF Domestic Animals
What pitiful sight it is which often
meets the eye in ones rides through
the country in winter andiearly spring
tho little stunted, elfish "yearlings"
standing here and there about the desc
late farm-yard, ewe-necked, lousy and
frizzled, their four feet gathered under
them in the compass ofa shovel blade,
their backs describing the upper arc of
a small circle the while, "each particu-
lar hair stands on end" on its own ac-
count, and the eyes express trouble
and perplexity, as the narrow little jaw
chews rapidly "the cud of bitter fan
cies," alone, as if wondering how it
was that the supply of hay and meal
fell so greatly short of the urgent de-
mand, contrary to the laws of nature
and of trade How unlike those bov
inc pets of the same age which have
had qesantas,a suf. of milk, clover, salt,
meal, bone-dust, straw, sweet hay and
turnips ever since they were taken from
their dams, and who now stand in their
warm pens, straight, bright-eyed,
strong, sleek fellows, weighing six or
eight hundred apiece
Ninety-nine sheep growers in a hun
dred in New England and the Middle
States would be profitted by q visit to
the sheep-sheds of John A Taintor,
ESQ.,, of Hartford, CT, or of Campbell
of estminster, VT. They would learn
how it "pays'' to take care of lambs,
and the difference in value and appear
ance of lambs so cared for, and those
which receive no care worth calling
such. 1t is an old and ought to be ex-
ploded notion, that animals will not
thrive without the care of their owners,
and which are not enterprising enough
to pick up living are not worth hav-
ing. So thought the Russians. Down
to recent period they used to herd
the droves of horses, raised on the
"steppes" in the interior, each year, in
an inclosure strongly walled. No shell
ter was provided, and a very made
quate supply of fodder. Here they
endured the rigors of Russian winters,
superadded to starvation, the stronger
of course beating off the weaker in
their desperate attempts to appropriate
a mouthful of food, and the waeker OF
course, and indeed. all but the most
hardy, dying-their theory being that
horses that could stand such treatment
and live through it, must be rare ami
mails and fit for the Emperor! Only
barbarians could theorize in such a
manner, and reduce theory to>sach a
practice. We have known Otherwise
sensible people, fearful Of the taint OF
pampering their animals. Horses may
be over-fed certainly, and will lmos'
as certainly have the ssstae
their exercise does not natchfI
One should be proportioned
other; but cows in milk, and
the yoke, are not apt to be
A cow in the best of June gras
make richer milk and finer bui
quart of meal daily, and winte
find her in better heart" and
out her milking season longe
We have seen these feQowsS
so slow to learn, pokns
State and County F.
ill-concealed envy
premium cattle de-
and grumbling; q
big cattle If they
'em" True so IL
larnt' yeoman! 5
it yourselves lea:
duce noble animals
produces jnst such
and are ashamed
bove all, care kindly, t..
youngling brutes, and trus
fidelity of an shireling,"
not for the sheep because
ling. g."-Anaerasssn S<r,'N