The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-09-03
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SHELTER FOR ANIMALS
"~eii-Housed stock Valuable to the
Farmer.


Sylvania, II sometimes in other cOm-
ties, and occasionally i'll other states. |
often sec sights that | would like to
catch with q camera. But the best
. tEiil% can do is to give pcn-pictures
OF these things. Very often. in cold
! II stormy days, | have passed large
barns. and in the barnyards stood cows
aud vcarling calves. They We're hud-
died together, and looked rs lean as
behring's. A. n place. where every
thing looked rs if Il SlipShod farmer
had his home, | inquired of a ncighb0r.
and h" told me that this man would
often leave his cattle out in the yard
during winter nights. | am sure that
&urh farmers, by keeping their cattle
W"Il housed in thor barns. and feeding
them CD cot corn fodder. with some
corn meal, bran ana cake meal mixed
with it. would oOn find that they could
make more money, as well as have de-
CcHt-loOEing stock that they would
have no need to be ashamed Of. 4
man who in winter turns out lis cattle
in the morning and gives them their
breakfast on the snow. ana after they
have eaten up the wet corn fodder, lets
them stand humpcd-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 man who has
the shelter that would keep up their
animal heat ana make the stock COM
Portable, but hasn't gumption or bust
ness enough to use it, should be
arrested Tor cruelty 10 ami nails. |
have heard men say that it vas .uch
easier to toss the bundles of fodder or
hay out in the yard and tlcn turn
the animals out. and also claim that in
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 q room
where there was no fire, ard in the
place of hot coffee they should have
ice water. Every animal in this lati-
tude should he 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 he ad-
vaGtageOUs: but leaving them out all
day will not be. and leaving them out
during the night ! call fearful mis-
arrangement. You can a money
with any kind Of farm animals. if
you are fully up to the times: but you
cannot do SO when they are eft stand
ing out of doors throughout the win
ter. II will freeze out the profits. How
can a farmer. for instance. expect TO
make money out of his hens if he
leaves them to TOOSt on the trees. and
scratch out their feed OH an Oat aud
wheat stack? ! asked a man once
why he had adopted such a plan. lie
replied that he had once been sent a
sample copy of n poultry paper and
that he had read in il that hens should
have exercise during the winter
months and he thought if he Should
make q stack of oats and wheat near
the barn. and leave the h"nS to scratch
FOR Il living on those Stacks il would
give them just he lccded exercise. |
asked him how many eggs he got Il
day from his 100 hens. He told me he
got from three TO six eggs per day.
The next question | asked him vas
how many dollars he made ont OF his
100 hens in a year. He told ne he
could not tell for certain. but he
thought about 500, of which amount
he claimed so clear profit. Before |
could ask him another question he
asked me: Can you beat that:' |
said. Yes" that l could. He said,
quickly: Lets hear how YOU did it..
By having my fowls in Il warm and
Prpperly-vPntilatcd house, and feeding
warm food in the morning. wheat ut
noon ard coarse cracked com in the
evening. and hy having plenty If pure
water or skim milk before them, and
by raising eighty youn" chicks early
in the season, and by selling some of
them for so per trio; and by selling
III settings OF eggs for Matching ut 81
per setting. | bad thus; S2J2.54 clear
profit from twenty-five hens and two
TcUSr"rS. My friend then said: Il So"
now that rOoStlng on trees ana feeding
grain stacks and forgetting to give
water to fowls las ! did does not pay.
SO | must adopt new ways. or else the
people from far and near Will talk
about me. ard say that l lave not Yet
learned my A. + & in poultry-keeping."
| SAY again. make the animals COM
Portable. for profit as well as for hui
martyrs sakC.--D. y. Klein. in Prlcti-
cal Farmer.
Combined Watering Trough.