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Domestic News
December 8, 1855
Saint Croix Union
Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota
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Article provides practical advice for farmers on preparing livestock for winter, including preserving fodder, providing shelter, selling weak animals, and avoiding overstocking to prevent losses.
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Preserve all the straw and fodder you can. If it does not find use now, it may before you are aware. Keep such coarse fodder under cover, (if you have room,) or well stacked out, till you need, and you will find it better than money out at interest.
2. Provide shelter for all your stock. From one-fifth to one-quarter of your fodder may be saved in this way. Or, what is the same thing, from one-fifth to one-fourth more stock may be wintered on the same food. Besides this, the stock will be more comfortable and in better condition. Now is the time to attend to this class of matters. The cold autumn storms are at hand, and the cattle and sheep should not be chilled by them. Such drenchings are a poor preparation for the cold of the coming winter.
3. Sell off, or fatten and kill the weak and old in your flocks and herds. It is far better to make moderately good beef or mutton of a portion of your stock, than to lose them and the feed they have consumed, and the labor of caring for them, after the winter has nearly gone.
4. Let the amount of your stock be considerably less than you think your supply of food will keep in good condition. The tendency is generally in the opposite direction. Men do not get the price they desire, for their surplus animals. They let time run on, hoping to secure a more favorable market. Winter finds them with more stock than they want. They dislike to sell or slaughter at sacrifice. They will try to winter the whole. It may be a mild winter. They will buy hay and corn if they should need it. The last of February comes and their fodder is consumed. Several cattle and half a hundred sheep have died. Corn and hay are high; and now they feel too poor to buy; so large a portion of their stock has been swept away. They begin the new year with a dejection which weighs them to the earth. They might have escaped all this, by keeping their stock quite within the limits of their supply of food.
Preserve all the straw and fodder you can. If it does not find use now, it may before you are aware. Keep such coarse fodder under cover, (if you have room,) or well stacked out, till you need, and you will find it better than money out at interest.
2. Provide shelter for all your stock. From one-fifth to one-quarter of your fodder may be saved in this way. Or, what is the same thing, from one-fifth to one-fourth more stock may be wintered on the same food. Besides this, the stock will be more comfortable and in better condition. Now is the time to attend to this class of matters. The cold autumn storms are at hand, and the cattle and sheep should not be chilled by them. Such drenchings are a poor preparation for the cold of the coming winter.
3. Sell off, or fatten and kill the weak and old in your flocks and herds. It is far better to make moderately good beef or mutton of a portion of your stock, than to lose them and the feed they have consumed, and the labor of caring for them, after the winter has nearly gone.
4. Let the amount of your stock be considerably less than you think your supply of food will keep in good condition. The tendency is generally in the opposite direction. Men do not get the price they desire, for their surplus animals. They let time run on, hoping to secure a more favorable market. Winter finds them with more stock than they want. They dislike to sell or slaughter at sacrifice. They will try to winter the whole. It may be a mild winter. They will buy hay and corn if they should need it. The last of February comes and their fodder is consumed. Several cattle and half a hundred sheep have died. Corn and hay are high; and now they feel too poor to buy; so large a portion of their stock has been swept away. They begin the new year with a dejection which weighs them to the earth. They might have escaped all this, by keeping their stock quite within the limits of their supply of food.
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Agriculture
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Farming Advice
Winter Preparation
Livestock Management
Fodder Preservation
Stock Shelter
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Advice on preserving straw and fodder under cover; providing shelter for stock to save fodder and improve condition ahead of autumn storms; selling or slaughtering weak and old animals to avoid winter losses; keeping stock numbers below food supply limits to prevent overstocking and potential starvation.