Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-08
S1rirultHral.

consume during Inb winter mOuJlS,' the
Michigan Farmer remarks as follows:
"The usual rate of the consumption of food
is at the rate of three and half pounds of
hay daily for every l00 pounds of live weight.
If we take the average of focks, the live
weight Of 100 common sheep would be about
$500 pounds, or from that up to 5000. It is
rare that whole flock of fne-wooled sheep
will average more than seventy pounds for
each head, though it may be that this weight
is exceeded in some instances. At the rate
mentioned, flock of 100 sheep should use
up or consume $50 pounds of hay per day,
or total Of twenty live tuns in the winter
season that lasted $50 days. This would also
equal 504 pounds to each single sheep, or it
may be stated as q general rule that full
grown Merino sheep averaging in live
weight from seventy-ive to one hundred
pounds, will consume during the winter
season a quarter of a tun of hay, or itseuuiya-
lent, If comfortably kept. If grain forms
part Of the ration, of course some of the hay
may be saved; but ifthe animal is to be kent
growing wool, it will need its full ration Of
hay, and little grain, too"
How TO FATTRN Hoes TO ADVANTAGE
A writer in the Boston Cultuator SAYS:
The following has been brought to mind by
reading an article from a correspondent
of the Ohio Farmer. He first hogged
down forty acres of corn, between the 10th
of September and the 23d of October. By
the hogs being weighed when they were
turned in and when they were turned out
1t was found that they paid forty cents a
bushel for the corn, estimating the pork at
four cents pound, and corn at forty bushels
to the acre.
"His next course was 70 take 100 hogs, av-
eraging 200pounds each, which were placed
in nine covered pens and fed all they could
eat of corn and cobs ground together,
steamed and given in allowances five times a
day. In week they were again weighed,
when, reckoning seventy pounds of corn
and cob as equal to bushel of corn, and the
pork as above, the hogs paid eighty cents a
bushel for the corn. The weather was warm
for the season.
''The same experiment was tried again the
first week in November when the corn
brought sixtY-two cents, the weather being
colder. The third week in November the
corn brought only forty cents, and the fourth
week it brought but twenty-six cents, the
weather continuing to grow colder. Another
lot of hogs was fed through December,
which only gave twenty-six cents bushel
for the corn. A part of the time the tenn
perature was at zero, and then the hogs only
gained enough to pay five cents a bushel for
the corn, and afterward, when the mercury
went down TO 100 below zero, the hogs
only held their own.
"The inference from these trials is, that in
BOnSEdA ~ 10 AOb DTOnutDl6 10 Ieeu 10
hogs after the middle of November The
difference in gain is certainly surprising, and
whether caused altogether by the difference
in temperature or not, no person of observa-
tion can doubt that hogs gain much more in
proportion to the food consumed in mild
than in cold weather. 1t seems that the
hogs gained much less by helping themselves
to corn in the field than when the corn was
ground and cooked, and fed to the animals
in pens, under equal advantages of weather"
"GIANT WHEAT" IN IRELAND.-In Ireland
they have a variety of wheat with the above
name, of which the editor of the AgricuL-
t,traI Rerie1O says: "The length of the straw
is astonishing, and the head is more than
proportonately large The Waterford
Mail describes a crop of it as seen growing,
as comprising from forty to sixty ears Of
corn growing together from one setting;
and in some instances seventy-two ears are
found; and if the average yield is eighty
grains, which is far under the mark, and
the number of stalks growing together is
forty, which is also below the average, we
have the enormous yield of thirty-two hund-
red-fold. All the seed which was required
to sow one-fourth of plantation acre, was
four pounds %
TUREINe UNDER STgBBLE.-A correspond
ent ofth Country Gentleman says
noticed simple arrangement for assist
ing in turning under stubble, weeds, &c,
viz: heavy trace-chain, with one end fast
ened around the beam of the plow, Just
where the upright Joins the beam, and the
other end of the chain fastened to the out
side of the doubletree. The chain swung
loose, SO as TO be about even with the un-
broken land. By using this the land is left
in beautiful order, no ends OF the stubble and
weeds sticking up, to make jagged, unfn-
ished appearance.
THE ADvASTAGE OF FREQUENT MILKNe-
A writer in an agricultural journal re-
marks: --..r.-
have never praeticed milking more than
twice day, because in spring and summer
other farm work was too pressing to allow
Of il; but there is no doubt that, for some
weeks after calving, and in the hight of the
flow, the cows ought, if possible, to be milked
regularly three times day-at early morn
ing, noon and night. Every practical dairy
man knows that cows thus MIXED give q
larger quantity of milk than if MIXED only
twice, though it may not be quite so rich
and in young cows, no doubt, it has a tend
ency to promote the development of the
udder and milk veins. Frequent milking
stimulates an increased secretion, and there
fore ought never to be neglected in the milk
dairy, either in the case of young COWS OF
large mixers, at the hight of the flow, which
will ordinarily be for two and three months
after calVing.
The charge of this branch of the dairy
should generally be intrusted to women
They are more gentle and winning thai
men. The same person should milk thI
same COW regularly, and not change from
one TO another, unless there are specia
reasons for it.
MODE OF UNLOADING HAY ALL AT ONCE
Mr.. L. +, Scott, of Connecticut, eommuni
Gates, Ia late number Of the Country Gen.
HeRldl, his mode Of unloading hay from 8
cart all at once. He says:
"My plan is TO have two or more endless
ropes spread on the cart-rigging, and load
on them, and when in the barn, bring the
rodes together on the top, on a strong double
hook made fast 10 a stout rope; this rope may
be run through the tackle, with a horse out
side, similar to the plan Of unloading with a
horse fork, while a man with q guy-rope
over pulley, back side of the now, directs
II where he chooses. Then let down and
unhook the ropes on one side, and pull them
out with the same power that hoisted it.
Another way, to hoist without the horsa
is TO have O wheel, similar 10 what merchants
use for hoisting hogsheads Of molasses and
other merchandise, hung In the ridge Of the
barn, and operated in the same way, with
guyTopes, as in the other plan. Where a
barn ADULT with the floor on one sids Of the
barn, with short middle beams, the wheel
can BE- hung partly over the NOW, SO that II
viii need less power on the Ruy-ropes."