Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-03-22

stop the wheels of development while young.
you have put a hindrance to it that may
last it through life.
The young OF domestic animals should be
fed a little at a time and often. If you feed
too much, you p~aralize, the nerves. by too
great an extension of the stomach, and you
destroy circulation.
The system of feeding q young calf a pail
full of milk in the morning and another at
night is very injurious, because it overloads
the stomach, and such overlooking hinders
digestion and stops the wheels of develop
ment.
The fall Of the first year is the trying
time with the calf. 1t should be provided
with q warm shelter, but while warmth is
expense ofpure air. The animal must have
OXYGEN; without it you get no growth, nor
can you get strength without pure OXYGEN.
Proper food is a matter of great impor-
lance with reference to health. The young
animal needs food that the old does not.
Only the wear of tissue in the mature ami
NAL is to be supplied by food, while the
growth Of the young as we'll as the wear Of
the tissue, be provided for. In order to
maintain growth there should be warmth
with good food and air.
Roots are an important food to give
growth to the animal, as they contain the
alcoholics and sugar, and these the young
animal must have to grow. Common salt
is ar absolute necessity. No matter how
wild an animal is, he will have salt. Nature
has provided for the necessities of the ami
NAL by putting these alcoline bases in the
earth's products. A change of diets as i'm
portant tor the health and growth of the do
nestle animal as it Is for man.
The story of the farmer who asked the
hired man if he liked Goldfish, and receiving
the reply that he did, furnished Goldfish for
every meal. At first, the man ate heartily ;
but after a time the farmer noticed that he
did not eat much, and said to him: John,
/ thought you liked codfish?' John re-
piled, +" | do like it; but it seems to me it is
getting a little m~onotonus." 1t is just so
with the domestic animals-they need ire
quent changes in food to thrive we'll.
Next to food, and scarcely less in impor-
lance, is water. Whatever is held in the
stomach, in solution is absorbed into the
hence it is important that water
be pure. The cow that gets only
poor water will furnish poor milk and little
of it. Milk is manufactured from what you
give the COW.
Next in Importance to food and water is
Shelter is of slight importance on
the south western p~rairies, but it is of vast
Importance here. The theory that stock
Wintered out of doors has better appetite, is
abominable. The animal that is sheltered
by the lea side of a mullin stock cannot
thrive. 1t is not the elaborateness, of the
but the perfectness OF it that is de-
Care should be taken in the detection of
The old sayings, can ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure,o ga
stitch in time saves nine,' etc, are more
true with reference to this subject.
An ounce of prevention is worth many
pounds OF cure, and a stitch in time saves at
least nineteen, are better maxims as applied
to this subject. The detection of disease re-
luires study Of the animaland ofits habits.
and takes time. You can't tell by the driv-
ing OF a horse, OF by the appetite of an ami
nal. A horse may drive promptly and well
to the bit, until he drops dead; and an
may eat we'll until he breathes his
asst.
TIL surest way to detect disease is in the
temperature of the animal. The tempera-