BOOK THE TWELFTH. 



MONTHLY CALENDARS OF FARM WORK IN ITS VARIOUS 

 BRANCHES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 



CHAPTER I. 



CALENDAR OF WORK IN CONNECTION WITH YOUNG STOCK, STORE 

 CATTLE, AND FATTENING BEASTS. 



OCTOBER. 1 



TTOUNG STOCK should be brought in from the outlying fields, in 

 X which they may be pastured, at night, and housed either in stalls 

 or yards with sheltered sheds, as the night air is now often cold and damp. 

 It is very unsafe to leave calves, weaned during the year, on low lying 

 or damp pastures at this season, as the risk of attack from husk is 

 very great ; the danger is lessened if they are not allowed to remain 

 out at night, but whenever there is moisture on the grass the little 

 worm which causes the disease travels up the blades, and may find its 

 way into the calf. Weak animals are most likely to be attacked, 

 therefore the aim should be to keep them in an improving condition ; 

 and dry food, such as hay and rich corn, or cake, will be the most 

 effective for the purpose. If they are kept in the yards or stalls, a 

 mixed diet of hay, roots, and cake should be given. Yearling stock 

 may be kept on the grass longer provided the weather is not unusually 

 severe or wet, but the herbage contains little nutriment at this season, 

 and, if it is desired to keep the animals in good condition, additional 

 food must be given, either hay, roots, or cake, as may be most con- 

 venient. If they are brought into the yards a mixture of sliced or 

 pulped roots with chaff should form their chief food, but it always pays 

 to give them a pound or two of cake or meal a day. Cavings obtained 

 during threshing make very good rack-meat for them at night. It is 

 not always convenient to give hay to all the stock, but sweet straw 

 chaffed is readily eaten, especially if it is sprinkled with meal. 



Store Stock are, as a rule, fed chiefly upon roots and straw forage. 

 The custom of browsing long straw and uncut roots is dying out in 



1 As the farmer's year, from custom, and in most instances from convenience, generally 

 commences from Michaelmas, the following calendars have been drawn up with reference 

 to that circumstance. 



