144 EVEBY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER 



amends for their being so fed as to be well grown. If 

 the farmer's view in increasing his stock, be to make 

 as much dung as possible, he should be reminded of 

 "what he ought to know already, that the dung of a 

 small stock would be equal to that of a large one, if it 

 consume the same quantity of fodder. If a farmer 

 make this obj^tion to pasturing his young flock, that 

 his farm is not large enough to admit of it ; he may 

 find an answer by turning to the article. Mowing 

 Ground, where diminishing their number of acres, 

 and increasing that of pasture ground, is recommended, 

 and sufficient reasons assigned. 



In the winter cattle should be housed, to defend them 

 from the inclemencies of the weather. For though, 

 nature furnishes them with a thicker covering of hair 

 in the winter than in the summer, the difference is not 

 near so great as that of the weather in this climate. 

 Working oxen and milch cows will suffer more than 

 the rest by lying abroad. If the farmer cannot con- 

 veniently house all his cattle, those should be left out 

 which are between the age of one and three years. 

 And those that lie out should have a shed, open only 

 to the south and west, to shelter themselves under in 

 stormy weather. 



The injuries which cattle receive from each other, 

 when they are lodged together in a yard, is an addi- 

 tional reason for tying them up in the barn. To which 

 it may be added, thait a great part of the fodder that 

 is given them is wasted, even when it is given them in 

 racks ; much more when it is thrown upon the ground. 

 They trample it into the dung with their feet, which id 

 no inconsiderable loss. 



Cattle will bear to be cold much better than to be 

 wet. If they be lefl out in a cold storm of rain, it 

 pinches them exceedingly ; so that they will not look 



