308 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



stalks on a block, or better, in a cutting machine. The beasts 

 may be bedded with straw, and quantities of the best manure 

 made. Thus the cattle are kept snug, and warm, while in good 

 weather they can range in the yards through a part of the day, 

 and take their water at pleasure. 



Sheds may be built eight, ten, or twelve feet high, with good 

 mangers in the rear, for their hay, or corn fodder, and open in 

 front, to go out and in at pleasure. So with calves, only their 

 accommodations should be closer, and warmer. We are aware 

 that long practice, cheap lands, and low prices for grain, have led 

 the mass of our Western farmers to think all this preparation 

 useless; but they will come to it at last, and wonder they had 

 not known it before. Thrift in their stock, and a saving in the 

 expenditure of their forage, will soon solve the question of its 

 superior economy, as also in the lightened labor of taking care of 

 them, and the retention of stores of manure, which is every- 

 where valuable, though not now appreciated. If, to the housing 

 of their cattle, sufficient roofing to protect their stores of hay, 

 and grain, is added, an equal advantage will be found in it. 



