West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-10-17
Fitting Stock for Winter.

flttlng STOCK Tor winter,
When stock has been fitted for rough-
M il, which. of course. means feeding
up to moet cold weather, the owner is
In position 60 choose between carry
Ing over TO spring or longer, or send
ING forward 20 market AZ any time
that is, il he has fed mp to such state
oil fatness as will, more surely than
any other, enable the animal TO resist a
low degree OF temperature without dis
comfort. IL thick wall Of saw lust
around body of ice preserves il from
melting in hot weather longer than
thin wall, then, on the same principle,
thick wall of adipose under the hide
OF farm beast protects the animal
from readily suffering by exposure to
cold. The sawdust i'm the one case II
the non-conductor which prevents an
Interchange of temperature between the
ice W thin the wall and the hot air with
out, while, reversing the order, the
layer Of fat under the hide Of the an
lmal prevents the transfer of cold to the
inner tissues. be ng "a noH-conductor,
equally efficient with the wall OF saw
dust in the other case. The wall OF fat
once placed beneath the hide is. If fair
protection b. given. somewhat easily
held there; while it is hardly possible
to put on ths layer during winter cold
without extra protection from tire low
temperature.
Hence the wisdom of seeing to 1t
early i'm the season. while flesh is easily
acquired, that the ga n is pu on which
is sure TO be required when tho mer-
curry falls low down i'm the tube.
Roughing il is nothing else than insti-
tntIn "A warfare haftyantt thn ~
which the animal is made up and the
elements without. A moments rc(lec-
ton will convince any one of the utter
wastefulness OF dealing out food three
times day in such free quantities ms
are required il fed is depended on to
keep up the animal warmth. reasonably
comfortable shelter being denied when
The weather is decidedly cold. DIR.
Playfair likcncd the body of beast to
Il furnace in which fuel is consumed to
produce heat, rs the principle is quite
IKE the feeding of farm animals, i'm so
far rs the food IS given TO maintain the
animal heat. The continued tendency
towards equalization IN temperature oil
bodies and substances in contact, acts
upon live animals exposed to contact
with the outer air, and hence, when
the temperature goes down there is "A
struggle within the body i'm its effort to
preserve its normal temperature. This
effort may be aptly likencd to that made
TO warm room with II heater, but lit
tie fuel being required when the out.
side temperature is well up, for the nor
NAL temperature or the animal BODY is
easily maintained under Ito crcum
stances without n special provision OF
food tor this purpose.
Fitting stock for roughing IL is very
Improbable a n preliminary process.
because the term implies exercise.
Without the outdoor exercise i'm in
element rs well rs in all other kinds of
weather, the tenn roughng it would
hardly apply Exercise, i'm PROMOTION
to its extent, calls for Increased action
OF the lungs and heart aud this lung
action wastes the living Issues rapidly
IL follows that quietness and seclusion
are the means TO re used for saving the
tissues. Therefore to feed mp for eX-
posture during winter involves n great
waste during the preliminary rs il does
during the final experiences. But i'm
TINS day we hope no one will persist i'm
the hetcrodoN notion that il is, i'm anv
sense, wise to build up during summer
valuable material that is to be ruthless
~ sIudHucTeu turing the cold months
with flesh producers, the making OF
ehble flesh is slow and expensive
process. and flesh once put ON should
in no case be parted with. If domestic
animals could be fattcncd as rapidly as
the carnivora are when they are full
fed then the task would indeed be easy.
But the carnivora eat flesh and tissue
having the constituents of their own
bodies ready prepared, while domestic
animals are built up by slow process
from materials which, while made up
OF constituents measurably like the
body. are still, in the main, quite unlike
it. But it is doubtless wise provision
that the flesh counted good for use as
human food is put on by slow pro.
cess, Otherwise it would he llabby and
oily; would shrink in the pot and van.
ish before cold blast. -Natio,lM Lire
Stock journal.