Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-04
REASONABLE SUGGESTIONS.

! Farm stock requires particular atten
| tcntion at this season of the year. The
| straw and poorer quality of hay should
have been fed out previous to this time
during the cold weather, when animal!
have keen appetite, leaving the gooC
early cut hay for spring feeding.
Cows need a little extra care now
The season is at hand when they will
commence giving milk, and if not well
fed and cared for, the quantity anC
quality of the milk will be inferior, and
the animals will run down i'll flesh
This should be guarded against as much
as possible, and as the prospect is fail
for reasonable price for both of the
first make Of butter and cheese, it will
pay for farmers to feed literally. and
take good care of their cows.
Young stock should not be neglected,
but kept in a thrifty and growing condi-
ton. This stock consists mostly of
Aeifers of different ages, which it is des-
irable to make COWS of at the proper
time. 1t is conceded by men who ought
to know, that it is better to have heifers
commence giving milk at two years
old than three, if of the proper size
BY good care and feed, years time NAV
be saved in this way. In addition to
good hay, feed or roots or a little meal
should be given.
The sheep interest is again reviying,
and the farmer in his daily round of
doing chores" should not forget his
flock, If he has one, and leaving it to
shift for itself. If early lambs are ex-
pected, roots or grain should be given to
ensure good flow of milk. as this will
be found more difficult now, than after
a good bite of grass is furnished
Although the inmates of our pig pens
are hardly considered worth looking at
now, or to pay even for ordinary atten-
ton, yet the tide will probably soon turn
again in their favor and farmers, and
although they may not keep so many in
numbers as heretofore, should endeavOr
to keep the quality fully up to the pres
ent standard at least. We should not
run behind even here, but what we do
cndeayor to do well.
Working teams have had a hard time
of it, during the winter, and as there
will be but little opportunity at the most
for rest, before the labor of spring will
commence, they will need good feed and
treatment, to enable them to perform
what is expected of them.
The grain for both horses and oxen
should be ground before feeding, as it
will pay the cost twice over A portion
of corn can then be added to the oats.
which will make the feed better than
the last alone.
FARMERS SHOULD PAIsE MORE CALVES.
1t will be more profitable for while
to feed a portion of the milk of the dairy
to calves than to pigs. Farmers have
depended too much on Canada for cows
with which to replenish their diaries,
and have lost money in these purchases,
fully one-half, we believe, proving infc
riOr mixers. One effect of the low
price on pork will be to encourage farm
ers to raise their own dairy stock, and
so far, it will be an advantage, as there
is not the least reason why we cannot
by this method obtain better cows than
we now possess. To do this we must
commence at the beginning, keeping on
ly the calves from the best cows, the
get of improved males, and then bring
them up i'll good shape, keeping them
thrifty and growing summer and winter,
until they come to maturity. Try this,
farmers, and sec if it is not a better
way than the one which has been prac-
ticcd for 50 many years. Messenger.