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Protection of Cattle. — Removing Trees. 



Vol. V. 



that might be engendered during the keeping 

 of the roots in the cellar — it may turn out to 

 be no error in judgment hut merely of the 

 press. When I objected to cutting the beets 

 for stock, I meant to be understood, that it is 

 an unnecessary labour to cut them at all ; 

 and if Mr. Barney will feed them to his cattle 

 whole, he will find it so; by this means he 

 will rid himself of the labour, and the cattle 

 from danger of choking; to which, I am 

 aware, they are very liable if the roots are 

 cut in large pieces. He will find that, by 

 means of their corner teeth, they will scoop 

 out pieces as conveniently as we eat an apple, 

 and these pieces, being rough and jagged by 

 the teeth, are not liable to slip down the 

 tliroat without mastication, as are those that 

 are cut by machines. After this, however, 

 comes Mr. Barney's system of feeding with 

 the roots cut fine and mixed with cut hay, 

 bran, chaff', &.C., and what I have said above 

 must not be considered as militating at all 

 against that, for I should be strongly inclined 

 to believe it to be good ; my conviction, that 

 the beets need not be cut before feeding to 

 cattle, was urged upon those who object to 

 the raising of that crop, because such a la- 

 bour is, in their opinion, necessary, which is 

 by no means the case ; the ruta-bagas being 

 so hard and round — so apt to roll in the man- 

 ger when pressed by the teeth of the cattle, 

 — I have always found it necessary to cut, 

 and often even then, they have been known 

 to choak cattle, especially calves, while feed- 

 ing upon them. An old Subscriber. 



Oct. 25, 1840. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Protection of Cattle. 



KINDNESS TO ANIMALS IS A CHRISTIAN DHTY. 



Cattle whose bellies are kept well filled, 

 have an active, vigorous circulation of the 

 blood, which keeps them warm during the 

 inclement winter season, provided they have 

 access to an open shed to protect them from 

 wet. It is much to be regretted that so many 

 barn-yards are destitute of open sheds, to fur- 

 nish protection to cattle. Those animals that 

 are furnished with warm stabling during the 

 night, suffer much more for want of protec- 

 tion from wet during the day-time, than if 

 they were exposed night and day to the ele- 

 ments. An advantage of no trifling amount, 

 also, arises from open sheds in a barn-yard 

 protecting the manure under them from being 

 bleached by rains, which depreciates its value 

 one half An accurate experiment has been 

 made by an intelligent farmer on this sub- 

 ject, which resulted in proving, that one load 

 of manure which was protected in this man- 

 ner, goes as ftir as two loads which had Iain 



exposed to all the rains of the season. A 

 rough shed costs but a small sum, and it mat- 

 ters not how rough and cheap it is made, so 

 that stock can be kept dry under it. 



Try it ; go to work and erect one yet, be- 

 fore winter; it can be done in a day or two, 

 at a very inconsiderable outlay, and it will 

 pay for itself, with a hundred per cent, profit, 

 before this time twelvemonth. 



Have you water in your barn-yard for your 

 stock, or do you permit your cattle to wander 

 abroad, for several hours every day, in pur- 

 suit of it elsewhere 1 If you have not, turn 

 to page 214, Vol. 4, Farmer's Cabinet, and 

 read, " A penny saved, is two pence earned," 

 &c., then think and act, without a day's 

 delay, if you desire to thrive. But if you 

 don't wish to improve your condition, go on 

 in the old way, and let your stock get drink 

 where they can find it, and drop their ma- 

 nure where it will be a nuisance, rather than 

 a benefit, for this is the plan pursued by all 

 careless, lazy farmers ; and they are uniform- 

 ly rewarded according to their works. 



Agricola. 



November 1, 1840. 



Removing Trees. 



We were pleased with a plan which a 

 friend has adopted to insure the growth of 

 some evergreens ; he had been unsuccessful 

 in his former attempts, and had lost many by 

 transplanting, but by practising the following 

 mode, he has completely succeeded in all his 

 late operations. He went, about this time 

 last year, and dug a trench around several 

 evergreens of large size, thus making a cir- 

 cular ditch of some three or four feet in dia- 

 meter ; he then dug holes where he designed 

 to plant them, taking care that these should 

 be sufficiently large and deep to receive with 

 ease the whole of the root of the tree, with 

 the adhering lump of earth. After the cold 

 weather had set in, and the ground had be- 

 come frozen, he went with a lever and took 

 up the trees; a large clump of earth adhered 

 to the roots, which nearly filled the holes 

 that he had made, and by filling up the spaces 

 with fresh mould, he so fixed them in their 

 places that they started out in the spring as 

 though they had never been disturbed or 

 removed from the places of their birth ! 

 With this precaution, very large trees, both 

 evergreen and deciduous, may be removed 

 with perfect safety, and thus may we create 

 around our dwellings a plantation, which, in 

 the ordinary mode of planting, would require 

 half a life to come to such perfection. This 

 is the time to put the thing into practice ; no 

 one, assuredly, will neglect the opportunity. 

 — Maine Farmer. 



