Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-22

| have three barns, and each has u cellar
under the whole area. One is 20 feet
by 40--one is 40 by 80, and the other is
80 feet square. The young cattle 60 loose
under these barns and the sheds attached to
them, all winter, and are much more com.
Portable than when tied up by the head
They can always choose dry place TO
lie in, and they eat coarse hay better when
loose. They arc watercd in the yards and
are never suffered 10 roam in winter. Not
one pin, Of The liquid manure is lost, for i,
is absorbed in the loan and in the refuse
hay. My COWS also lie loose under barn
by themselves. They lie much cleaner
through the winter than in stalls their bags
are c.ean, and the milk is as sweet in win.
ter as 10 summer. One.half the labor Of
tending is :hus saved, and The cattle winter
better.
20. purchase most OF my cattle from
the Vermont droyes--a mixed breed.
81. When raise calves, suffer Their, 10
suck the first part Of the milk fer three
months, and milk the las. part tor butter;
they arc then no. so likely to be poi.bellcd
as when taken Immediately from the COW.
%. Mine is not dairy farm. Most Of
my pasturage is too distant to drive COWS.
We make our own butter:
The profits ofmy farm arise principally
from the sale ofcatlle and hay. We reckon
the value of the milk from four cows, at
S35--each Sl40.
%. wintered breeding sows, and
raised from them % pigs-sold most ofshem
at eight, weeks old.
"a. keep them in summer on tho re.
fuse Of the dairy-giye them very little
grain-.had The breed originally from New
York--cannot afford 10 raise OF to buy
much grain for pork ruta.baga roots are
cheaper than potatoes to feed them with.
25. The best article to be thrown into
the.I,og- pen to increase and to preserve the
manure, is loan. We should not throw
them peat muck they will not fa,ten so
well, and they become very filthy in roofing
it over. Straw and refuse hay is better to
be put under cattle than hogs. Hogs mix
up manure very indusriously. and turn it
many times. They prepare it for immedi-
ate effect in the field; but it is much over.
rated it looks richer than it is it has been
stirred so much, it is ripe for immediate &C.
ton but it lasts not SO long as manure
from neat cattle or from horses its strength
IS gone the first season.-Horse manure,
if Kept from heating too much, is more
valuable.
26. My mode of farming requires very
little labor one man can perform the whole,
except the haylng. hired this summer,
one man for 7 months, at SIG per month
one-six,h fthis time he had los: taking
one day each week to himself. For three
weeks in hay time hired on the average,
three additional ands,--nine weeks. My
son, lad of eighteen, has assisted two.
thirds his time and have done but ll'-
le on the farm myself, excep! in hay time,
about one month, when ! labored half the
time.
In hay time gave one dollar day on
the average. One steady man and boy
twelve years old, would do my work lor The
seven months after April first, except the
hoying. In winter | hire none, and have
little 10 do but to tend my stock.
81. | have FIVE hundred apple trees, and
mos. of them are grated.
20. have forty pear trees, thirty five
peach trees, twenty bearing English cherry
trees, three black mulberry trees, three plum
trees. FIVE ounce trees, and two Slberians.
%. Borcrs have not troubled US much
canker worms are not plenty this year. 10
them. dig about the trees, or plough, or
turn in hogs late in the fall, and sow corn
about the roots.
80. We use no ardent spirits. Cider
and water swee,ened with molasscs, is our
stronges, drink.
Principal amount of produce this year:
Hay for sale, 25 tons S40O
Have sod 10 bcefcattle for 367
Have still TO turn this fall, 8
more, valued at $40; but
/ deduct therefrom tho
original cost ofthe cattle,
SIG; this leaves 10 be
added 134
And | keep the stock
good in number.
Sixty bushels corn 500;
200 10. rye $3.50. 3lo
Three acres buckwheat. 43
bushels, at 81, 43
1000 bushels ruta.baga
for stock, not counted.
80 bushels ofwheai at lbs cd. 53
10 bushels potatoes, -
Sold hogs and pigs to the
amount of $9l l-2 81
Two or hand.o keep stock
good.
l45bbls. good mrrchantabls co
apples ats. 'os os
80 bbls. cider at Is. Cd. 81