The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-08-29
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SHELTER FOR ANIMALS.
Well-Housed Stock Valuable to til
Farmer.

Well-Houscd Stock Valuable to the
Farmer.
Travelling over Le]ligh county, Penn
sylvania, and sometimes in other couli-
ties, and occasionally in other states, l
often sec sights that 1 would like to
catch with q Gamers But the hest
thing I can do is to give pen-pictures
Of these things. Very often. in cod
and stormy days, l have passed large
barns, and in the barnyards stood COWS
and yearling calves. They We're bud
died together, and looked us lean as
behring's. At one place, where every
thing looked as if a slipshod farmer
had his home, l inquired of I neighbor.
and he told me that this man would
often leave his cattle out in the yard
during winter nights. l am sure thai
such farmers, by keeping their cattle
we'll housed in their barns, and feeding
them on cut corn fodder. with some
corn meal, bran and cake meal mixed
with it, would soon find that they could
make more money, al we'll MS have de-
c%ent-looking stock that they would
have no need to be ashamed of. A
man who in winter turns out his cattle
in the morning and gives them their
breakfast on the snow. and after they
have eaten up the wet corn fodder, let's
them stand hulnped-up in :.he corner Of
the yard. patiently waiting and suffer-
ing much discomfort, loses money
straight along every hour, rs surely as
the time passes. Any maj who has
the shelter that would keep up their
animal heat and make the stock COM
Portable. but hasn't gumption or bust
ness sense enough to use it, should be
arrested for cruelty 10 ani.nals. [
have heard men say that it vas r.uc.h
easier to toss the bundles of fodder or
hay out in the yard and then turn
the animals out, and also claim that i'll
that way less manure was to be hand
led. Such remarks come from lazy or
ignorant farmers. Such men should be
compelled to eat their meals in a room
where there was no fire, and in the
place of hot coffee they should have
ice water. Every animal in lis lati-
tude should be comfortably sheltered
during the cold weather, and only
turned out for exercise when the owner
himself would be comfortable stand.
ing around. An hour out in the sun"
shine, when pleasant, would be ad-
~yantageous; but leaving them out all
day will not be, and leaving them out
during the night I call fearful mis-
management. You can make money
with any kind of farm animals, if
you are fully up to the times: but you
cannot do so when they are left stand
ing out of doors throughout the viz
can q farmer, for instance. expect to
,,ol,o ,,or,nr n,,f Of hic hons If hn
len yes them to roost on the trees, and
scratch out their feed on IN oat and
wheat stack? I asked a man once
why he had adopted such n plan. lie
replied that he had once heen sent a
sample copy of a poultry paper and
that he had read in it that hens should
have exercise during the winter
months and lie thought If he should
make a stack of oats and wheat near
the barn. and leave the hens to scratch
for q living on those stacks it would
give them just the leeded exercise. l
asked him how many eggs he got 4
day from his 100 hens. He told me he
got from three to six eggs per day..
The next question 1 asked him was
how many dollars he made out of his
100 hens in a year. He told me he
could not tell for certain, but he
thought about 500, of which amount
he claimed $50 clear profit. Before [
could ask him another question he
asked me: "Can you beat that" I
said. yes" that l could. He said,
quickly: LETS hear how YOU did it,"
by having my fowls in n warm and
pruperly-ventilated house. and feeding
warm food in the morning, wheat ut
noon ard coarse cracked corr in the
evening. and by having plenty Of pure
water or skim milk before them, and
by raising eighty young chicks early
in the season, and by selling some OF
them for $40 per trio; and by selling
III settings of eggs for Matching at 81
per setting. l had thus, $252.54 clear
profit from twenty-five hens and two
rcostcrs. My friend then said: II see
now that roostlng OF trees and feeding
on grain stacks and forgetting to give
water to fowls las I did does not pay.
SO l must adopt new ways. or else the
people from far and near will talk
about me, and say that 1 lave not Vet
learned my A. Il G in poultry-keeping.'
I say again. make the animals COM
Portable, for profit as we'll as for hui
martyrs sakr.--D. N. Klein, in Prlcti-
cal Farmer.