2200. Keep Stock in good condition.—An animal may be kept short of food in the latter part of the fall or first of winter, at a small saving of food but at a loss in the condition of the animal.
2201. Stables and Food.—Provide comfortable sheds and stables. Remember that a want of comfort is always a waste of flesh. Give a sufficiency of food and drink, with great regularity. A meal ten minutes later than the usual time, causes the animal to fret, and fretting lessens flesh.
2202. Drink and Litter.—Most animals will drink several times a day, and should therefore have it as often as they want it. They should have plenty of clean litter as often as needed. With such management, there will be an almost incredible saving of food.
Tight Stables should always be ventilated. The breath and manure from animals always causes impure air.
2203. Oxen.—Being well-mated, oxen are more easily trained; and the more easily to effect this, much self-denial on the part of the driver, much coolness of temper, more training by motion and less by voice, may be highly advantageous to man and beast.
2204. To Select.—Adopt the practice of selecting best lambs every year, for stock. In a few years you have first-rate sheep. The same course will produce the same effects in every kind of animal.