SHELTER. 



THE subject of shelter is fundamental in any 

 discussion of the general care of cattle under 

 domestication, and yet it is one of those sub- 

 jects concerning which there has long been 

 much difference of opinion a difference which 

 is not likely soon to be reconciled. The vary- 

 ing circumstances of highly-developed and 

 newly-settled parts of our country, of mild 

 and severe climates, which we have so closely 

 connected by reason of the intimate connection 

 between distant sections of the country secured 

 by the railway and postal facilities of today, 

 render this difference of opinion far more radi- 

 cal in appearance than it really is. It is quite 

 natural that a Massachusetts farmer should have 

 a different idea as to the amount and character 

 of the shelter which stock need in winter from 

 that entertained by a brother farmer in Ken- 

 tucky, or even from that held by another in 

 nearly the same latitude in Dakota. The rela- 

 tive nature of all such questions must be dis- 

 tinctly appreciated and the proper corrections 

 made for differences in latitude and longitude. 



There is another factor which makes a great 

 deal of difference in our estimates of the requi- 



