The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-14
srannxsansrssIss Young Stock.

sraaAxsaneHsssf Youna Stock.
As this, is the season of the year iwneni
the worst Kind OF management com % ss
II NAV be the imeans OF saving much loss
in rrovth, and psrbapes in some instances,
loss OF life. to allude, TO the great evil OF
aIlnv;nc calves, lambs, or colts, to sink In
con5;tion anaiust winter: October nights
hacomr, yery cool, and as the grass is not
suffioient for any ycung animals, they should
he separated from all older stock, and plt in
and fed night and morning, remaining in
shelter all night; or II, there were snail
enclosures with comfortable novels in them
they would do best up till Christmas TO be
fed in them, and have liberty to 60 In and
out at pleasure IF these places could be
built "a the side or a hill or at the. foot of
it, facing the ssohth, 80 thatithe shelter for
the calves, would be cut into the bank, and
the barn for their hay be above; they would %
do well; and with q cellar for roots they
could not Be better Situated, providing more
roots, FROM rheaps we'll secured in the field
are fetched into the cellar as fast as the
calves eat them. Colts would thrive better
similarly trestedJby having carrots in their
cellar, for. though swedes are decidedly the
best roots for calves, carrots are the right
sort for colts. Where no, roots are grown,
pumpkins for the calves and bran mixed
with oats for colts will be the food TO give
In addition to good, sweet hay. ahg9g szsa,-E "a
Whoever raises stock ought to have con;
veniences for it, and should understand the
;mnortance OF giving them suitable food at
every time When it will conduce TO their
nrosnerity no check to- one continued thrift
shouidl be permitted 1; and if every animal
on a FARM excepting breeding females,
could be kept fat from its infancy, 1t would
double the profit. When any poor, httie
creature stands aboutrwith ats BACK rounaeo,
looking an object Of! pity. 1t cannot be
growing or opaying for the miserable atten-
ton it receives but when i IS known that
the young stock on farm IS not oroughtS
into any sheltered quarters, or has not any
comfortable shed to 60 to till it has begun
to lose flesh, and the owner is afraid be Will
lose 8 part of the animals, If not fed and
ho,used. then such o man ought to be de-
prived of the power to do such evil, for this
Is the worst kind of cruelty-ten times more
barbarous than the cases usually prosecu-
ted by the society in New York. ~;
Colts are managed in the most senseless
way, and brought out in spring in wretch
ed plight. saw some colts at agentlemsn's
plsce near New London, Ct, in the spring
of 1867 which had been treGted IN such a
way that they could barely walk-moving
faster was out of the question. Colts, II
properiyrattended to, will tgambol and race
around at every slight excitement; but
they are generally ruined by unnatural con-
fnement and food, which it is contrary to
nature for them to have. Let them have the
range of good field every day the sun
shines. 1t is all bosh about contining them
in buildings oil the time. The grass they
will pick by scraping the snow away by
paving will do them more good than any
coddling, and they willo come into their
shelter and eat double the oats, bran, and
hay that they would without the sun and
fresh air; and should they get enough grass
to take themoff their hay somewhat, they
will be none the worse il. they get plenty of
the best grain. If there is no chance of
giving colts the benefit of q run on pasture,
carrots will be substitute for the grass,
and they must have air and sunshine-the
aforementioned is really of the most essen
tial Importance.
Lambs will be quite as heavy at one year
Ulu Win do AuAAApo si0 NV 1894
eat from the lst of September till new-year
day, and full supply of swedes the first
three months of the new year, as they would
be under the very best common attention,
without roots, on the LIST of April twelve
months after-viz., when they were two
years old. And at one year old, after the
seven months living on roots, with hay, &C.,
they would cut fleece heavier than the two
clips of wool without roots. '."
There is the same gain in other stock as
there is in lambs, by giving them such kind
of succulent food as will force them along,
but in valuable breeds Of any kind the adj
vantage does not rest at the saving of a
years feeding; for the frame being all
the while made up with firm flesh, which
always accumulates on the best points, the
animals grow into very much handsomer
shaped specimens, and become splendid
when matured.-G. g., in albany CuItiva-
tor.