The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-22
FARM ANNALS.

As the weather of early spring under
goes that change called ''softening'' Il
should not be forgotten that a like
change overtakes the farm beast. In
fact, men feel the same change creeping
over them, and are made aware of great
tendency to chilliness, not because the
weather is colder, for the mercury in
the tube shows a higher temperature,
but owing to a relaxed condition of the
skin, and all the tissues beneath. The
susceptibility to taking cold'' is very
great at such times. The appetite
weakens, and correspondingly all tbs
/ vital forces are at a lower ebb than
when the weather was cold and bracinQ.
The winds and rains of early spring are
particularly searching, and it is a very
bad practice to relax efforts in The mat
ter OF caretaking st this season of the
year
The Journal has advocated giving
plenty Of light to the stock, but in no
case would we advise turning them out
or dark, dry stable into the wind, rain
or datnpness outside. Light and air are
curative agencies. Communities have
gone wild over the benefits believed to
have come of basking. In Eude state,
under blue glass. But remember,
warmth and dryness were coneomitauts.
Animals that have had a dry bed or
stall, under cover all winter, "take
cold" very easily by lying upon damp
ground when turned out in the early
spring. A little observation will show
that they frequently rise from their wet
bed upon the ground, arch,ng the spine |
and coughing. In no case, except in a |
southern climate. should animals be al |
lowed to remain ont to sleep upon the 1
ground, having previously been stabbed
earlier than well into May, or only
when all the conditions are favorable.
Many animals are, as it appears to a
casual observer, affected by a slight
cough, though really in these cases the
bronchial tubes are so far implicated as
% show structural lesion, upon a post
nor'em examination. Early spring
exposures upon animals having these
apparently slight affections of the air
'assage are very liable to FIX incurable
'rganlc trouble upon the animals so af-
ected, whereas due care in the sprino
all influences that affect the
1T passages unfavorable until the warm
weather. OF the late spring and early
ummer is established, will, in mauy
ases, eradicate the cough before the
winter sets in.
A plan could hardly be devised that
would waste food more rapidly than
hat which involves the exposure of I
arm animals to the early rains of
pring. No man can pretend to esti- ,
nate the amount of loss that will fol- :
DIV one thorough soaking to the hide in !
cold April transform. We could I
aTdly say :ess than it would reouire /
-bersl feeding and care for two or three :
ays to place the animal back in the Z
ondition it was before such a SOAKING :
specially if this was accompanied nv r.
1e usual chill. There is a wonderful
over 10 the body of animals for adam
alton to the changes and vicissitndes G
the weather. This holds good tn
ute a degree of animals in robust =
eaith, provided artificial methods have H
ot been too thoroughly practiced upon
em. Animals that are blapketed &C
lrine the winter are particularly SEN
i've 10 exposure, especially if this oe VI
et and cod combined. Horses or cat. e'
that are blaDkeled are insured sbor.
coats OF hair and more RELAXED err
ndltion of skin than those not so prc-
'ted, and such stock can not, without ",
eat hazard, be turned utearly to take 81
Behold f66e contdiuef6r OF ar Kttru-y. wv. ~
d urinary diseases Hunts Remedy.
re cure.
Speedy cure to all diseases of kidneys or H
mary organs by using Hunts Remedy.
w hat an appetite it gives how restful II
axes my sleep, by using Hunts Remedy. bl
4 v Cr-a r,I nc HhQ hi0Opat