The Care of Stock in July.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1894, Page 3

The Care of Stock in July.

Now those president farmers syho have taken care to lay in a plentiful store of roots aud oiher winter fodder ( will have their reward. Cows calving ' or about to calve, as well as those in milk, should be kept under cover on j all wet, cold nights, and have a liberal supply of hay, dry bedding and roots. | When potatoes are cheap, and the • supply of roots failing, they are not to be despised as a food for dairy cattle, either cut up raw, or boiled aud mixed with a portion of bran On farms where there is hut poor natural shelter, artificial protection from the woather is especially a matter of importance. Cold and exposure are literally either flesh wasted or food thrown away. Ewes will now be coming forward for early lambing, and should be carefully looked after. If possible they should be kept out of wet, low lying paddocks, and they will be much benefited by a ration of sweet hay, or even good oaten straw daily. Roots may be cut up and fed to them in a paddock, or they may be allowed access to where the roots are grown for a short time each day ; but it is nut'advisable to keep ewes in lamb on turnips entirely ; abortions are often duo to so doing.