Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
Farm, Garden and Household.
Cost OF Food for Hens.

cost of feeding hen? There are, of
course, differences according to the
breed namely, the size. activity, &C.,
and particularly generative activity.
An egg represents large amount of
nutriment, of the most condensed sort,
and hen that lays 200 eggs per year
will need, say. some sixteen or seven
teen pounds more of pure nutriment,
for this purpose alone, than one laying
half that number. And, of course,
every additional ounce of fat laid on
your fowls ribs must 60 in at the bill,
(as well as telling in your bills,) so that
fattening breeds consume more than
mountaineering ones under equal circum-
stances. Again, other things being
equal, a very active fowl uses up entire
ly, without accounting for it in eggs or
fat, nutriment enough, in excess of a
quiet one, to pay for her liveliness.
Every flap of your turkeys wing costs
a grain of corn.
But from series ofpainstaking obser-
vations we can say that the average fowl
at large consumes not far from bushel
of corn per year. If at large, she sup
plies herself with green food, and picks
up insects, larvae, &c. If kept confined,
animal food must be artificially sup
piled, such as crushed chandler's scraps,
chopped sleeps lights and livers, and
house scraps. In summer you must
add to this short, tender grass, and in
winter raw cabbage or boiled potatoes,
or other green vegetables. This, for
year, brings the estimate for the cost of
the food of the confined fowl up to the
equivalent of bushel and half of
corn. 1t will generally be found that
when corn varies in price, the cost of
vegetables and animal food varies with
it, so that this estimate is generally
correct. World.
Raising Roots for Cattle.
think people do not pay attention
enough TO raising roots for cattle, and
as have had little experience in that
line, 1 will give it for the benefit of
your readers.
In 1871 1 purchased four ounces of
mangel wurzel beet-seed and sowed it
on two square rods of ground, in drills
two foet apart, and tended with hoe
and in the fall l harvested from said
piece of ground thirty bushels of beets,
sixty pounds to the bushel. The same
year l sowed about one-eighth of an
acre of carrots, from which obtained
about forty-fve bushels.
In 1872 sowed three-eighths of an
acre to mangel wurzel, in drills three
feet apart, from which I obtained 191
bushels. 1 also sowed three-eights of
an acre of carrots, in drills two feet
apart, and obtained 125 bushels. The
carrots were more expensive in wedding
and digging, and returned less feed in
proportion to the amount of land sown
than the mangel wurzel, but of little
better quality. I think mangel wurzel
the cheapest food for cattle that can be
grown, if we take the amount of land
used into consideration.-M. NJ s., of
Concord, Io,0a, in Western Rural.
Corporation Commended.
In his recent consideration of the
condition, prospects, and possibilities
of American agriculture, Mr.. Dodge,
urging the idea of combination on the
attention of farmers, declares that there
is no reason why comparative isolation
should lead to positive hermitage. A
great enlargement of American dairying
has come from association the month
ly gathering for sales of farm animals in
Madison County, Ohio, has saved i'm
mense sums from the clutches of mid
dlemen; the Inauguration of market
fairs should be general associations for
importing or buying animals of the best
blood should be more numerous there
should be farmers library in every
township in the land farmers should
join to build fourishing mills, saw
mills, and woolen factories, if they can
not get them otherwise and they
should combine en- n,aSSe to enforce
upon politicians, railroad directories,
and all others, justice and equity in
their dealings with agriculture.
How to Grow Lima Beans.
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tLen,an says:
For the past ten years we have raised
them in great abundance-in fact, have
cooked none other for dry. The first
year or SO we found difficulty in ripen-
ing the beans, as we picked for the table
as fast as they were ready. There are
only two points, if observed, to insure
success. The first is to pinch off the
top of each vine when they have reached
the top of the stake-say six feet-and
the second is carefully to save the earli-
est pods for seed. Many writer's say
that they must be planted eye down,
&c. We never practice it. We put the
ground in nice order, when it is warm
enough, and plant as any other beans,
four to a hill, and they generally all
come. By saving the earliest for seed
we have them nice for the table three
weeks earlier than at first.
Bees on Every Faru.
NJ. l.. Dunlap, of Illinois, said that
bee-keeping was delightful and profit
able pursuit as family recreation and
resource not that thousands of pounds
can be raised by every one, but all can
have a supply. When we teach all to
manage them, and make them interest
ed, we give them something to attract
them, something that will keep our
boys from the towns and their vices.
We find few farms for sale now, because
the tastes of the people are becoming
elevated, and homes are made more at
tractive than formerly by the addition
of such things as make them pleasant.
We have the flowers, but if they are
trampled out they must be raised, pro-
tected, and made accessible. 1t was
success, even in Chicago, the suburbs
of which produced abundance of white
clover