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WINTER MANAGEMENT OF NEAT STOCK- 



BY L. C. FISHER, OF CABOT. 



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 When God created the universe, He gave man dominion 



over all the cattle which He had made. In His infinite 

 wisdom He so constructed the soil of the earth, that, with 

 the aid of the linsbandman, it might bring forth food for the 

 support of man and beast. In our Northern climate, where 

 the winters are so lonff and severe, we are oblio-ed to furnish 

 shelter and much food for tlie support of our stock, at least 

 six months of the year. It has been fully proved that ani- 

 mals fed upon one kind of food alone, for any length of 

 time, will not thrive. To have healthy and well developed 

 animals, it is necessary to have a change and variety of food. 

 The seed time is the time to prepare the winter food for our 

 stock. The root crop should be made a specialty ; at least 

 one acre of land to every fifteen head of cattle, should be 

 devoted to this purpose. My experience is that the turnip 

 crop is tho most profitable of any. Then follows the grass 

 crop, which should be secured while it is grass and not hay 

 seed. Stock should not be kept to kill brier bushes and 

 thistles in summer, and convert straw into manure in win- 

 ter, but kept for profit. And this comes only by good 

 breeding and good care the year round. After the above 



