The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-13

n The New England Farmer has an In.
teresting article on the care and keep OF
a herd Of cattle in Vermont, from which
I'VE clip the following:
The aim here is to breed a cow that
shall stand high on the record, but, at the
same time be perfectly healthy, and OF a
tendency for milk production rather than
beef exclusively. The great unslghtly
humps and punches of fat which we
sometimes find laid over the hips n
Pumps of some of the Short-Horns,
making them look too clumsy to be COM
Portable, were not observed here to any
marked degree, especially among the
more choice-bred animals. At the time
of our visit nearly all the animals were
in a large open yard, well Uttered with
straw, and where they were leisurly
walking about or lying quietly chewing
their cuds in the warm sunshine; n
90 kindly are they all treated by their
attendants that of the whole fifty not
one could be found to show the least fear
of man, whether an acquaintance or a
stranger, but many of them would fol-
low us about in our walks, asking as
plainly as actions could ask, for a stroke
or a pat of the hand over their smooth,
pleasant faces.
The barns, which are substantial and
commodious, are pictures o. neatness ana
comfort. Few of the prisoners in our
penal institutions, we fear, fare as well
a. do these animals, with their whole
some fned, pure air and clean beds.
Twice a year every animal is thoroughly
.roaIaI Ill o,ou -, 4ohannn atom tea IN
which is mixed one and a halt ounces OF
carbolic acid. This keeps them entirely
free from all kinds of external parasites
They are fed three times per day by the
clock every time; no animal IS kept
waiting for his food beyond the usual
I time, and no more is given than will be
eaten up clean. The hay is cut and
4 slightly moistened with warm water, and
/ a little bran or meal sprinkled on. The
proportion for each animal averages
twenty-five pounds of hay, three pounds
of bran, and one pound of meal per
! day-not a heavy food for animals OF
that size. From experiments which have
been and are being made, the proprietor
is of the opinion that these large animals,
on account of their quiet dispositions
and hereditary tendencies for laying on
flesh, can be kept quite as chelply per
animal rs some of the smaller but NOR
nervous and restless breeds.
The stables are partly under ground,
but. though warm are not dark or damp,
The walls are SO thoroughly built, and
the doors and windows so well arranged
for protection from outside influences
that the temperature during the whoie
winter, from November to March, has
scarcely varied more than sixteen degrees
ranging from six below freezing to ter
above even when the thermometer IN the
open air indicated twenty degrees below
zero. No fire heat isused for warming the
stables, nor is steamed food in very goot
repute here. Part of the animals arr
tied with chains and part are confined
between stanchions. Both methods arr
liked but chains are considered, upon thu
whole, preferable. Straw for bedding /
used very freely, and the cattle are a
clean in winter as in summer when a
pasture. In pleasant weather water /
given in the open yards, but in storm,
weather it is carried to them in thei
stalls.