. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. >26 REARING AND FEEDING OF ANIMALS. fore bringing the calves home for the winter, the yards should be bedded with a layer of coarse straw, or dried stems of plants of any kind. In the middle of each of these yards should be placed one or more racks (Fig. 176), for containing straw, and preventing its being strewed about. The best kind of straw is oat-straw, and the rack should be kept constantly supplied. Fig. A quantity of turnips (for this
. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. >26 REARING AND FEEDING OF ANIMALS. fore bringing the calves home for the winter, the yards should be bedded with a layer of coarse straw, or dried stems of plants of any kind. In the middle of each of these yards should be placed one or more racks (Fig. 176), for containing straw, and preventing its being strewed about. The best kind of straw is oat-straw, and the rack should be kept constantly supplied. Fig. A quantity of turnips (for this we may suppose to be the species of green food used) must be put into the troughs in the morning; again a quantity at mid-day; and, lastly, a quantity in the evening, before night-fall. The calves must receive a full allowance of turnips, that is, they must receive as large a quantity as they can consume. At the same time, the racks must be kept always filled with straw, and some litter sprinkled, wherever necessary, over the yards, so as to keep them dry. When straw fails, hay must be supplied, and in place of turnips, should these also fail, po- tatoes or other succulent food. In the month of May, generally about the middle of it, in the northern parts of this country, but several weeks earlier in the more southern parts, the pastures will afford sufficient food for the young stock, which have now completed their first year, and are, in the language of farmers, yearlings, or one- year old. Until the grass is fully ready, the animals should on no account be turned out to the pastures, and care must be taken that the grounds are not overstocked, lest the animals be in any degree stinted in their food. They should at this period bo gaining fat as well as growth; and no greater error in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectl
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