The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-05-07
Spring Care of Animals.

Animals require special care at this
season. This weather is very changea-
BILE and horses and COWS are shedding
their coats and liable to catch cold.
Sheep must be managed according to
circumstances. If the yards are large
and dry and you have plenty of roots
it is probably best to keep them out of
the pastures until there is a good bite
of grass. If the yards are small and
muddy it viii be well to let them run
out every fine day. A sod field that is
to be plowed for corn viii make a good
run for them and Will save the regular
pasture. Feed all the hay they will eat.
It is a great mistake to stop feeding hay
and grain as soon as the sheep are turn
ed to pasture. They may not eat much
hay, but they should have access to it
and be allowed to eat at will. Ewes and
lambs need warm, dry, sunny quarters.
Feed the ewes plenty of bran, early
cut clover or other hay, and rs many
roots as can be spared. Unless the ewes
are very fat, pound of oats each per
day may be fed with great advantage.
Be careful to avoid exposing the sheep
and lambs to rain storms. IF a lamb
gets chilled, wrap it in warm blanket;
or, in extreme cases, put the lamb in a
tub of warm water. Lambs apparently
dead have been restored in this way.
Feed horses literally and allow plenty
of time to rest and digest their food.
It is better to work them steadily for
eight or nine hours than to keep them
in q field ten or twelve hours. letting
them stand still one-third of the time.
When a man needs to go home to lunch
or supper the horses need food also. A
pail of water with pint of corn or oat
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tired horse. 1t will enable him to work
an hour or two longer in an emergency.
Cows should be carded every day. It
is especially important to feed new
milch COWS literally. and with good
judgment at this season. Do not be in
a hurry. to turn them out to grass.
Give plenty of early cut hay and have
enough to keep their bowels moderately
loose. If thin, give little corn-meal
or oilcake meal in addition. Cut the
hay, moisten it with water, and mix
about two quarts Of bran and quart of
corn-meal with bushel of chaffed hay
and let the cows have all they will eat
up clean. When turned out into the
yard, let them have little long hay in
the racks to pick at. A COW giving
milk needs a great deal of water. Let
her have access to it all day, or at any
rate night and morning. If you can
give each COW half a busheI Of mangles,
or beets, or parsnips, or carrots daily
it Will be of advantage.
1t now looks as if pork would next
fall and winter bring higher figures
than for the last two or three years.
Last fall pigs should be fed very hber-
ally at this season, in order that when
they are turned ont to grass or clover
they may be strong and vigorous. IF
they are fat now they viii keep fat all
summer on good clover. With us this
is the cheapest way to make pork. A
SOW should be placed in a warm, COM
Portable pen some days before she is ex-
pected to fsrrow. The object is to let
her get accustomed to the new pen. It
is we'll to let her out every day for ex-
eroise before she pigs and occasionally
afterwards. Give q little fiax-seed tea
or oil-meal Stops and bran to keep the
bowels open. After narrowing give her
for few days thin, warm bran slops
three times q day. Gradually give
richer food, such as oBt, corn or pea
meal, mixed with bran and mixed with
slops from the house or with uilk. If
cooked and fed warm it viii favor the
production of milk. With Well-bred
sows the milk is often too rich, and we
should aim to feed IN such way as to
increase its uuantity, but not its quality.
purpose than brewers grains or warm
whey, or skim-milk and scalded bran
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