404 FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT. 25. 



clofe warm houfc naturally grows thin, and 

 peels ofF prematurely ; expofing the cattle 

 when turned out to grafs in the fpring to a 

 degree of unneceffary hardihip, which, in its 

 efied:, is perhaps frequently worfe than ex- 

 pofing them in an open yard in the winter 

 months. 



The warmth of rhc cattle, however, ap- 

 pears to be here only a fecondary objcdt : the 

 SAVING OF FODDER fccms to bc the principal 

 motive for tying up cattle of every kind in 

 winter ^ by vvhich means almoft every flraw 

 i? eaten; the cattle frequently lying, without 

 litter, upon the bare floor of their flails. 

 Twenty or thirty head of cattle are here kept 

 on the lame quantity of flraw, which in moft 

 corn countries Is allowed to bc picked over 

 by eight or ten. 



The dung drops into a fquarc trench, 

 which is ckancd every day, while the cattle 

 are out at water, or in the fields at grafs. 



Bouiul cattle are ufually foddered four 

 times a day : in the morning ; again in the 

 forenoon ; a il.iid time when they are taken 

 up from v.:ueT:ng ; and finally, in the even- 

 Thc b'-ll of the llraw is sivcn to the 



young 



