Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-12-23
StahlIng Slock ahd JAIL.


The opinion once 50 prevalent that.
farm stock must. be compelled to run
half fedin che Yards oropsn fo'd DIS the
first winter TO give them a good consii-
tuition and make them tough Is happily
exploded, and We now no more expect
TO treat a young animal in thai manner
than we would make a boy 20 fiaif
clothed and starved in order that he
might make q good strong man, Bat
yet few people realise the importance
Of having warm winter quarters Tor
farm stock; they don't seem 70 realize
that certain temperature OF the sys-
tenn must be maintained, and that by
making the stables warm we proven,
the consumption 81 large shlerRnts OF
feed. The animals are ours. and sol
fshness il not humanity should dictate
THAI we make them comfortable Any
man who lets his cattle stand %shiveribg
in the lee OF a straw-stack, or old fence,
or under an open shed. should be tied
in the name place and he compelled 20
stay one night with the thermometer at
zero and the snow flying thick and fast
about him; if this does not convince
him Of the necessity OF good warm sta
bles. he is not tit TO be called by the
noble name of Farmer, and the quicker
he gets out OF the business the better
for il and himself.
In stabling cattle. have them rs COM
pact as possible; instead of strineing
them in n single row in a long stable |
prefer the stable as neal square as may
be, and to put the cattle IN two or four
Wntuos fka pYpvsn tu a Iplu. Nh.sr awa
placed the less labor TO care for them.
and the warmer they will keep. There
is no material so good for o stable as
brick or stone, but where we must use.
wood the sins should be well bedded in
mortar upon a good wall. The board
ing should be sound, put on close, bat
tened outside, and well nailed, Batfened
inside with laths, and on these put
tarred ~shedthing paper (not felt), and
again put on strips of lath and another
thickness,of paper, and over this sheath
IL up with matched lumber. This Is
much better than double boarding and
stuffing with straw, chaf or saw adjust;
il is entirely wind-prooG, aud much
warmer, and there Is no harbor for rats
or MICE and il is much more cleauly.
over head the floor should be matched.
| much prefer having the cattle stand
onthe ground, providing there Is plenty
of straw for bedding.
The subject OF ventilation is as little
understood for stables, as fordwellings;
il is next TO impossible oopen windows
or ventilaiors at the sides OF the stable
without some animals taking cold or
suffering from a draft; a much better
way the best Of all ways-is 10 place
upright trunks or tubes, say eighteen
inches square inside, reaching from the
roof down a foot below the ceiling of
the stables. These should be protected
on the root by a Slated hood or coSyl,
anil should have a slide at the bottom
that can be opened and closed ut pleas
ure. In a stable thirty BY forty feet,
there should not be less than three Of
these. In c positions in different
parts Of the stable, place thermometers;
by means OF the trunks mentioned
above (by opening and closing the
slides) we should maintain a tempera-
ture as near fifty degrees rs possible.
In very mild DAYS, Il may be necessary
TO open some windows, but they should
always be on the side away from the
"ihb Inns iiOhAO Va NtllAllflihu Will XII
ways keep the air pure and wholesome
and still createno drafts on cure ats ofair.
II there is no conyenitnee for water
ing in the stables (Which l would pre-
ferA | would only let animals out bust.
long enough 70 drink. Ii at any time 4
Thought they needed exercise, / would.
let them out, and put a boy after them
and run them so as to get the needed
exercise as soon as possible and I'M
mediately return them TO the stables.
Romember that all exercise takes food,
and If the stables are Kept clean, well
Uttered, and busted every day with a
little plaster, the cattle can be kept all
winter perfectly healthy without an
hours exercise. Another fact we should
remember: every day we KEGS Ayoubg
animal with no growth, and every day
q mature animal is allowed to get poor
er, we are Keeping them at a loss and
can't afford it; we should see TO it that
they are constantly thriving, and to this
end we should feed plenty. OF good nu-
tritious feed and plenty Of some sort Of
roots brother green food. But above