Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-31

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resh grass; whereas, if they should be
confined to one-half the field which is to
support them fer given number of days,
and then changed to the other half, they
would find a constant succession of fresh
and tender feed.
: : Particular watchfulness is needed If the
flock contains any ewes which are expect
ed to bring up s'adopted l,mbs." Such
/ ewes are quite likely to desert the lambs
1 thus forced upon their care and leave them
to tshift for themselves" AS the season,
4 the cold and rain season of autumn APP
proaches, provision should be made for
sheltering the flock from the inclement
weather. A drehching rain of two or three
! days continuance not only detracts from
T., theappearance of sheep, but is a positive
injury to them, and is one of the discom-
i forts which should not be visited
upon them when it is possible to
avoid 1t. At the time of coupling, the
greatest care should be exercised in separ-
ating the ewes designed for breeding, into
lots according to certain characteristics, so
( that those designed for particular ram
can be easily managed. Those having
qualities which it is desirable to remedy in
their offspring, should be put to rams
which possess the opposite qualities in a
marked degree, and thus uniformity OF
size, form and quality of fleece may be Sc
cured.
No man who expects to make any inn
provement in his flock, will allow a ram to
''run with the ewes" Six or eight ewes in
day is as many as one ram ought to be al
lowed to serve when he has the very best
of care; with less number, the chances
for giving good stock would be much in
creased. .--
Many men mistake in leaving their sheep
outtoo late in the autumn, as well as turn
ing them out too early in the spring they
imagine, when the snow holds off until the
first of December, that if they can keep
their flock in the fields during the greater
part of November, they have saved just
so much of their winters forage. This is
mistaken notion. and such men too often
find that it will take all the month of De-
cember to make up what was lost by COM
pelling their sheep to live for two or three
weeks on the dead, FROST bitten grasses OF
the late autumn.-COr. Am. Stock y our.
The transportation of cattle, it appears,
has been bone OF contention among the
great railroads leading to the. Atlantic
seaboard from the West. The Albany Eue-
ming journal reports that the Pennsylvania
Central, the New York Central, and the
New York and Erie railroads have for sew
eral months past been running their cattle
trains at comparatively half-rates. This,
it is stated, was brought abont by one of
the companies making a contract with a
large dealer, which, 1t is said, gave him
great advantages over equally large deal
ers, and enabled him to control certain
markets. The rival roads, however, have
succeeded, in reducing their rates, in pro-
curing the cancellation of this contract,
and this week it is announced the tariff for
cattle transportation agreed upon last
spring will go into operation on all the
roads, and half rates will no longer pre-
vail. a
The New York Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals has, during the
past year, done great deal of good. Its
! firstsannual report has just been published,
and from this it appears that the society
has been laboring, with more or less sue
cess, to effect reforms in certain matters
which touch the health and comfort of hu-
man beings quite as much as of brutes.
1t has obtained an act of the New York
Legislature forbdding the practice of
transporting cattle long distances by rail-
road without rest, food or water. This re-
form is not a mere matter of sentiment and
humanity, but also of public health. Cat
tie which have been tortured for long days
in close and filthy cars cannot make whole
some meat. .s