136 Economy in Wintering Stock. [March, 



The cooking or steaming of food for stock, I consider quite essential, 

 for it effects important chemical changes in the substances cooked. 

 I contend, then, food that is cooked for stock will go one third far- 

 ther than when it is given in the hard, heating, binding, irritating 

 corn. Hoots should not be overlooked; they serve as a change 

 from dry food. Carrots turnips and beets can be easily grown, and 

 no farmer should be without them during the winter season. They 

 should be fed once a day, at least : variety is essential to a good ap- 

 petite, and it is unquestionably true that roots will have the eflfcct of 

 making stock more healthy. 



Salt is important ; a supply should be placed where they can ob- 

 tain it at any time ; they will never eat more than they need. Stock 

 should be fed regularly, and at stated times. They should never 

 have more at a time than they can eat up clean. If they leave any, 

 it should be immediately taken from them. 



GROOMING. 



Grooming is highly important. Good rubbing with curry comb 

 and brush opens the pores of the skin, circulates the blood to the 

 extremities of the body, produces free and healthy perspiration and 

 stands in the room of exercise; thus the groom is beneficial to the 

 horse ; and I contend that it is equally so with cattle. I think that 

 milch cows and cattle that are stabled, should be groomed every day. 

 I believe that milch cows should be curried to insure a good mess of 

 milk ; and in conclusion, I think stock that have good warm com- 

 fortable stables, feed cut and cooked, and are groomed every day, 

 will thrive and be in better condition, on one half of the food, than 

 those that are left to take care of themselves in the storms and cold 

 blustery winds, with double the amount of food. 



A Large and Costly Mirror. — The largest mirror plate ever 

 imported into the United States, has just been put into the saloon of 

 the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York. The plate is seven by eleven 

 feet, and half an inch thick. The original cost, and the cost of im- 

 portation, was 81200 ; the frame and putting up, $200, making a to- 

 tal of Si 400. 



