Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-01-14
Westminster Farmers Club.

Met accorning to adjournment, Mr.,
NJ. Nuttng in the chair. Question-th
best manner of feeding and caring TO
our stock.
IRA SMITH would feed sheep out o
doors in dry weather, but under cover il
wet weather. Would feed all stock with
some grain. Stock that is worth keeping
at all, is worth keeping well.
ROBERT FARR agreed with l. Smith
in all things. Prefers corn ground on
the ear, to clear corn.
L. CLARK would keep all his stock in
a warm place and feed them but twice a
day. Always feed well and most stock
with grain.
john COLLINS would keep young stock
under cover, but not tied up in stalls.
Would feed well, with hay and grain, ex-
cept horses and oxen. Would rather
have straw than hay and give plenty of
grain.
john FAIR gives young cattle straw,
corn fodder and hay without grain.
Thinks it more profitable to sell, than
feed his grain. Gives all stock a good
bed and feeds twice day-his coarse
fodder the first of the season and good
hay towards spring.
OcTAvUs FISHER takes his stock in,
from pasture, early, before they become
poor and keeps them in the nice base
ment of his barn, feeding them three
times day. Believes it profitable to
feed grain. Would cook the feed Feed
hogs rapidly.
d. G. WRIGHT likes corn ground on
the ear for cattle and turnips with meal
for them Both the cob and the turnips
help digestion. Feeds all kinds of fod-
der the same day being uniform in feed
ing the same kinds at the same hour.
Fat cattle should be kept in dark place
all Others, and sheep in the sunshine,
where they can have plenty of exercise
and pure air. Never tie cattle with stan
chions. Manure should be kept under
cover and he wo Id advise every man to
have good basement story to keep it in.
ALVIN WRIGHT thinks good beds al.
most as essential for cattle as feed. He
feeds under cover three times n day and
not much grain. Feeds sheep having
lambs, with cut clover, early.
S. M. NUTTING, would have his horses
in warm, we'll ventilated stable and
give them plenty of exercise. Other
stock should not be stabbed, but all un.
der cover. Give plenty of air in fair
weather but keep close in very cold OF
foul. Have water handy for all, and
give grain to everything.
w. R. KIMBALL, The question be.
fore the club is a very important one,
First all kinds of stock should be kept
warm and clean, stables well ventilated
pure water and enough of it, never should
be allowed out in the storm, never over
fed, it makes them pot-5ellied as this
would deform them. All kinds should
have a plenty of good, nutritious food
with little corn ground on the cob, in
this way we can always have nice stock
and it will fetch at auction fair price
Some of us feed too much poor feed and
stock may eat too much or cannot cal
enough to get the substance they should
have to develope the muscles.
If the fodder is good they will not need
so much Of it, and then feed the cob meal
daily, in this way we will have much
larger and finer stock, than fed ordinari
ly way.
There is no reason why our stock
should not thrive just as we'll in the win.
ter months as any of the summer months
except the month of June, and yet how
very few reach this point.
Adjourned to same place Jan. 10th
1870, 6! o'clock evening. Same subject
continued.
N. G. PIERCE Secretary Pro Tenn.