Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-29

straw, and when the grass begins to fail
late in the fall or before it has grown
much in early spring, supply of these
articles of fodder should be kept in it, so
that the colts may be fed here as well as
sheltered. Troughs should be arranged
under the rack, to put the feed in when
the colts may require it.
1t will here be proper again to call the
attention of the practical stoek-raiser to
the diseased condition that SO often char
acteriZe the colts mouth, as consequence
of teething Perhaps the best place to
give the young animal the remedies that
will correct this state will be right here in
these feeding troughs. The shabby plight
of many a colt proceeds from indigestion,
caused and kept up by the soreness and
inflammation of the mouth and gums.
Good wood ashes, with plenty of salt,
kept constantly in the feeding-troughs, will
have the happiest effect in abating the
evils referred to, and in mitigating the
suffering Of colthood, Sulphur, also, may
be used in the same way, with very
marked benefit to the colt Not only is
| it worth thousand times its cost, as a
preventive of disease, but it will effectual-
ly destroy and keep away vermin OF every
description.
On many farms there exist great lack
of shade trees, not few pastures being
totally destitute of them, and this is
another most weighty reason for the cree
| ton of such shelter as we have described.
! 1t is absolutely essential TO the comfort
and well being of stock, especially of the
| colts, that they have some cool retreat
under which 10 retire from the burning
rays of our midsummer and dog-day
suns and where there are no trees to
afford natural shade, an artificial sub
/ stitute for them becomes necessary APP
pendage upon every well-regulated stock
/ farm.
| Shade trees are the beauty and blessing
of the pasture, and there will be a very
| perceptible difference in the fall between
/ the appearance of colt that runs in a
well-shadea pasture and thai Of another
which has no shelter from the noon day
heat The young animal cannot be con
| tnuaily exposed TO the down-pouring
of the suns fierce rays, through the hot
/ test months Of the year, without suffering
| plainly from debility and depression.
/ One Of the first things to be done in q
new pasture, if shade is unfortunately
/ lacking in it, is to take measures ut once
! io supply the deficiency. Trees shosld
/ be set out in different parts OF the field
reference being had TO convenience OF
/ location, character Of the soil, and other
/ circumstances that the intelligent far
mer viii not be likely tooyerlook. The
preferable tree for this is the black locGst,
! 1t will grow very thrifty Uneven a POOR,
rocky point, it bears large sweet bios
SON. which, rs well as the leaves is very
/ healthful for stock, and the grass that
comes under it will be of mXUriant
growth, and prove more paatable than
the pasturing under any other tree. Oh
some rich fats the sugarmaple may he
! planted and beside the creek or branch
/ If there be one, the willow slip MAY bt
set out and will grow with surprising
rapidity. The locust also grows rapidly
and all these trees make fine shade and
are valuable for the wood, rails, and tim
! Der. For making rails and fence posts
| the locust is almost unequaled. Locust
/ rails will last century.
Shrubbery is desirable feature in any
pasture, and there are special reason.
why even the briars may proftabiy he re
I trained on poor, thin, or stony knobs, and
! along the gullies and ravines. --Amert0aE
/ Stock journal.