Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-29
Farm, Garden and Household.
Winter Carr OF stoO,,.

tluu was - winter care OF SUCK. Mr..
James Wood advocated warm stables as
a matter Of economy. A certain part
Of the food used by cattle is consumed
in keeping them warm, and If they are
well sheltered less food is required.
Attention should be paid to ventilation.
Cows require large quantity OF food,
as their digestive apparatus acts best
when the stomach is distended. With
horses it is different they should be
led at regular intervals a sufficient
quantity TO keep them in good condi-
tlon. but not enough to make them
"paunchy."
Mr.. Joseph Hsines would not object
TO stables where it would freeze oc-
casionally. Did not think the COWS
would be less healthy on that account.
He favored feeding grain to both horses
and cattle, since hay alone was the
most expensive sort Of food
Par. Godfrey Haines preferred warm
stables and advocated taking good care
of stock in winter. He especially mem
toned the propriety of feeding horses
regularly three times day enough to
keep them in good condition, and said
that horses fed all they would eat were
worthless to drive on the road.
Mr.. Joel Mable spoke at length of
keeping COWS and horses in warm, ven
tilated stables, which should be by no
means in basement. Would face the
cows and horses toward windows and
let them see the prospect, instead of
facing toward q blask wall, or making
them stare at one another. in parallel
lines. Keep COWS happy and they will
give more milk and better milk. Pure
water was especially necessary. Carrots
for horses, and beets and carrots for
COWS, he considered indispensable for
good winter feeding. Turnips he
thought little of estimating that they
were worth just what they cost, viz. =,
the labor of gathering. He objected
particularly to the use of brewers
grains.
Mr.. Oliver Green advocated warm
stables and careful treatment; he would
keep cows in stables in severe weather
nearly all the time and would con-
slider it an advantage to have water
slightly warmed for their drinking in
excessively cold weather. In sunny
weather would let them run out several
hours day. WHAT he thought most
injurisus was a sudden change from
heat to cold.
Mr.. Stephen Wood agreed with the
general view of those who have spoken
in regard to good stabling and proper
care. He had made it his practice
to have COWS eat up the hay clean by
saving the refuse formed in the managers
and once week or so putting brine on
it. He favored variety of food for
cattle, instead of giving them stalks
till the stalks are gone and then hay
till the hay is gone. He spoke at length
of the improvements in agricultural
science.
The President spoke of the plan Of
keeping cattle in stables throughout
the day, aid said the tendency now was
to let them run out more than q few
years ago. He mentioned cases Of
farmers who maintained that theil
herds had been injured by too much
care and too high feed. He favored
liberal use of sowed corn fodder.
Poisoning sheep by Dipping.
One of most common and fatal causes
for mortality and destruction of sheer
in dipping and suffocation in handling
is the use of metallic pre- parations TO
the cure of scab, and killing the para
sites that abound in the fleeces. Arseni
and corrosive sublimate are substance
which enter largely into the compost
ton of these killing mixtures, and W
learn that well-known, largely-adver
tised nostrum, which is principall
composed of arsenic, was used on al
occasion when forty animals were rem
dered llieless in somewhat less thai
four hours. Sheep farmers frequentl,
turn newly'dipped sheep back to tn
same pastures and localities whic
abound in the parasites which tormen
them, and newly clipped sheep are al
lowed to mingle with lambs withou
any precaution being taken to guarC
against the passage of the lice, ticks
&C., from one to the other. thus til
operation, confined to ewes only, favor
the parasites seeking greater warmth i
the thicker and closer feeces of tn
lambs. When ewes are dipped,
would be well to dip lambs also, and i
using q compound, that selected shout
be one not essentially for bleaching an
cleaning the wool, but for it's power ,
attaching itself to the fibres of til
fleece, and thus rendering it untenab
by the parasites. There is, howeve
some difficulty in the choice of mater
ais which will affect this, and more
when the bath is used, as all substanc,
cannot be conveyed in a watery soil
ton. For this reason we advocate Il
more effective, although slower, plan
pouring, with which every sheep-fa
mer is thoroughly conversant. By thi
many agents, perfectly harmless to IL
sheep, but deadly poisonous to the pa
asltes, may be used, conveying comic
to the animals, effecting a more speed
cure, and preventing not only the 10
OF flesh, which is never regained, bI
also the loss of the animals themselv
Scottish Farmer.
How to Feed Horses.
The Vermont Farmer says an
Emery, OF Worcester, after trying Sc
eral ways of feeding horses, has settl
down on the following He feeds who
hay with six quarts of bran and co
meal, half and half, twice a day, W,
He has fed so for the last year. Il
horses look finely, and he works the
hard, but at the same time he is cal
full man with team. He intends
have them fed at stated times, once
twelve hours" This is much bett
than feeding meal alone, as the coar
bran separates the particles of meal al
prevents its packing so hard as it otht
wise would in the stomach of the hors
but even this is not o safe way with
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