The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-15
RAISING STOCK INDOORS.

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Speaking of the condition of the stock
thus far this winter in Holmes county,
the Republican of that county says:
'It is a matter to be earnestly consid-
cred by our farmers whether it would
not be better to have barns to shelter all
the stock, and thus keep it growing all
winter, instead of just holding its own
during the coolest months"
From s'what we know about farming"
we supposed there was no question on
that point. Both profit and humanity
would surely be consulted by keeping
stock not only sheltered from storms,
but in keeping it warm and comfortable
during winter. And this reminds us of
what Consul Howells says in one of his
Quebec letters to the Ashtabula Senti-
mel:
There is an enterprising citizen Of
this place who has opened battle with
the winter, in the way of gardening in
spite of the cold. Col. Rhodes, an Eng
hsh gentleman, living about three miles
out of Quebec, has provided himself
with buildings in which he bids defiance
to the frosts, and actually grows vege-
tables, fruits and flowers for the New
York market. He has made complete
system of it, and is making it paying
business. He unites certain kind of
stock raising with gardening SO that
they support one another. He has
large buildings for housing COWS, pigs
and poultry, which he keeps warm. 1t
is long house, at one end of which are
the horses of the farm, and not many of
them; then there are stalls for COWS of
which he keeps enough for family sup
ply of milk, with surplus to sell as
milk or cream, at the best price. These
COWS are good ones, but not of very ex-
pensive breeds. He never breeds from
them, but milks them until they are dry,
which may not be for many months, and
as they are fat by the time they are dry,
they are ready for beef of the best quail
ity, and command a good price. Any
milk hkelyto waste he feeds to his pigs,
which take the next place in the house.
They are in pens, ranged on each side,
opening outward by doors through the
walls, into pens outside and under cover.
He has his hands who have charge OF
the stock, to turn these pigs into the
outer pens as soon as they are up in the
morning, and leave them until feeding
time, when they are let in and fed from
cast iron troughs so arranged that the
pigs cannot fight or drive each other
away. Their feed is prepared by cook
ing meal and roots or other vegetables.
They are bedded with leaves gathered
from the forest in the fall, in which they
root and on which they sleep. Aftel
feeding they are turned out, at regular
intervals, by which he says they acquire
good habits and the pens are kept clean,
The leaves and refuse straw of then
beds go to replenish the manure heap,
The economy of manure is prominent
part of his plan always kept in view,
even to the saving from the poultry
house. At the farther end of his build
ing, he has division for hens, that he
manages much as he does his COWS. Ii
the fall he buys several hundred hens
which are comfortably housed as soor
as cold weather sets in. They are of the
common breeds of the country, and the
only care is to see that they are healthy
Being in warm quarters they lay abund-
antly when eggs bear high price. To
wards spring and before the gardening
season, he has them fat, when he kill
off the entire lot, and is without hens
till fall. In this way there are no dis
eases among them, and they yield a grea
profit.
In this house the animals are KEEP
clean and warm, with plenty of waite
from pumps in the house, 1t is ais
heated by stoves at different places in ii
These are anthracite base burners, an,
therefore safe, and regular, as heaters
This plan of managing animals he say
is less trouble, while it is more profits
BILE, than any other, and, as an adiunC
of the garden, is an admirable arrange
ment. have not seen anything thi
way that was 80 sure to make good n
turns,