Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-20
Irasburgh Farmers Club.
Care and Management Of Stock amd
the Premises IN Winter.

A
teaching three months and only fed .
my stock twice a day, at about eight
o'clock in the morning and 5 at night,
and all the animals done as we'll as
usual from this and the experience
of others | believe that twice day
is just as we'll as to feed four or five
times. The cattle seem to rest natu-
rally twelve or fourteen hours at night
and can go eight or ten hours in the
day time as well. They should not
be unnecessarily disturbed between
meals. | water cattle once day
AS to the care OF the premises all
tools and implements should be shell
tered, and sheds should be plenty and
convenient, so that it will be easy to
shelter them.
In getting up wood I think it good
way to cut logs and pile them up in
the woods and saw them into blocks
10y horse power; the wood is then in
convenient form to handle, to draw to
the house, and is quickly prepared for
the stove.
G. B. Brewster-As to getting wood
it is a bad Way to cut up the bodies
with drag saw and leave the tops to
rot upon the ground. The tree tops
will be scattered all through the tim
Der lots; the farmer thinks he will cut
them, but he don't do it. The true
way is 10 begin at one side and take
it clean, also cut up the fallen trees
= that would soon be worthless.
D Our cattle should be fed three times
+ a day and watered twice. The man
h who has the care of stock should be
up early and feed in the morning be.
fore light. Our stables should be
warmer than we usually have them
but | know of one barn that | think
is too tight as the breath of the ami
mails causes drops of moisture to gath
er inside the barn. | make practice
of getting out what manure can anC
leave it in small piles upon the grounC
e. Till spring. | think it is not damaged
Is by exposure, but more OF the liquiC
IL manure is saved by getting it out il
ID winter.
&c E. P. Church. used to feed iv,
D; times day, but now think three time
\; is enough, at 6 10 the morning, at nool
y, and just before dark. They drinI
Is once day and | don't see but the
to do as well as though they had waite
tic oftener. Some cattle will drink onl
ne once a day
My practice in getting wood is t
ho cut it sled length and pile it up in tn
or woods before snow comes, then til
first good Shedding draw it to til
house and pile it in the back var,
then during the winter or spring cho
it ready for the stove; the chips al
about as valuable for summer fires {
the coarser wood. | believe in she
tering all the farm implements, MOI
tools rot out than are worn out.
have always believed it not best
draw out manure in winter unless
is put into large piles, as the sun al
spring winds causes it to waste.
[ could be convinced that | should 81
/, Ter no loss | should draw out manu-
:. > in winter, as then my fields would n
MID be cut up by carting over them al
.ro spring is busy season.
VIM l.. Jameson-lt is often t
emit case that in our wood lots there q
las many large trees that have begun
-, decay and might as well be cut, a
and it is more economical to take su
large trees than to cut thrifty you
trees and clear up the wood lot as f
was as we need the wood if the bodies
'ted large trees are taken and sawed
O 70, there is no waste in chips.
| feed my cattle four times a d
about six o'clock in the morning q
has then after daylight water and fee
His at noon feed and at night water g
the feed. mix M straw and hay
"'' gether aud in this way more straw
eaten than if fed separately. In "
ter get muck to compost NTH sta
ntly manure and contents of my hog 2
coal If it is not convenient to throw it
'ilii' in the fall to dry then dig it and dl
4 the
H. 1t IN winter. In this section we m
make more manure, as there are &C
in town that yield less than half
nom Of hay. There are some farms I
Gen. with all the improvements are
Dull worth so much as the land would
had it never been cleared. In s.
parse sections there are large pastures
o the but little stock-large barns and 81
mt. crops. We shall soon be i'll like
dition unless we enrich our land
oman think it is not advisable to sell 9
u ' even at the large prices offered,
rather feed it to animals, keep q
nor hogs, make more manure. sell S
/