The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-15
FARM NOTES.

cultural editor OF IRe Farmers Union
ana Weekly Tribune learned by expert
ence o few years since, that it would not
answer to keep sheep in large locks.
Out OF flock of little less than /, 100
head, that he was Interested in he lost In
one winter 549 head, while his loss when
his flock was from 800 to 500 head did
not average 2 per cent per year. When
sheep run in large hocks, every sheep
must travel over more ground to obtain
his food, than where small flocks are
kept In pastures, and as that ground
is usually travelled over daily, the
less the numbers are the better it
VIII be for the sheep, even if the
pastures are ever 80 good. We're we
to embark again in wool-growing, we
would not, from our previous expert
ence, keep over two hundred head
IN flock. That is to say, if we had
o thousand head. we should keep them
III five separate hocks.
HINTS ON MILKING Cows.-A man
who had done his own milking employed
q boy to do it; he shrunk the milk one
third in two weeks. The owner resumed
the milking and in two weeks got the
same as before. Afterward he set
hired man to milk, and he shrunlk the
milk ten per cent. in two weeks; and in
two weeks more, the owner milking
again. got as much as before. This
man does the work quickly and milks
very clean. He closes the fore finger
and thumb around the teat high up, and
makes q downward motion, Tightening
tho grip md forcing out the milk then
lets go lis hold, keeping the thumb and
hnge IA circle, carries up the hand and
presses it smartly against the udder, and
closes and pulls down as before, and SO
repeats until done. The philosophy, if
any, Is to give as near as may be the
same motion that the calf does in suck
lng:, Many o good COW is partially de-
spoiled OF her good qualities in conse-
quence OF being improperly MIXED.
FARMERS, KEEP ACCOUNTS Farmers
are prone to neglect this important mat
ter, and by such negligence are liable to
great many disappointments, in the
shape of store and other bills, which
when presented are surprise to them,
and has tendency to create 8 suspicion
on their part that the merchants are not
honest, while on the other hand their
families are berated for extravaganza.
Receipts and expenditures are never
noted; the profits and losses in any
branch OF farming are unknown uncon-
sciously debts muntiply; for it requires
much less time and ability to dispose of
money than to acquire it. Accounts
properly kept would admonish them
when they could afford to spend and
when to check up. Carelossness in one
particular Is apt to foster and beget
carelessness in others. The fact is,
every farmer should hnvo his journal
and ledger, and keep his accounts rs
promptly and correctly as the merchant.
EXTRA FooD FOR Hoas.-Coal ashes
and clay arc beneficial for hogs when
shut up to fattcn. Hogs are fond of
cinders, coal ashes and clay, and improve
In condition III eating q certain portion
OF them every day. Some persons are
unable to account for this singular pro-
pensity in swine. Poultry are very fond
OF egg shells, lime, sand, and it is we'll
known these substances are necessary in
order to form the shells of eggs, and to
furnish material for bones for fowls.
Now, II Is reasonable to suppose that
SWINE eat ashes for the purpose of sup
plying the material for their bones, and
this singular instinct in animals SO low
III the scale OF intelligence is truly won
derful, for ashes contain ingredients
which arc necessary to form bones clay,
F1llcin, coal, soft lime, stone and rotten
wood with their food, which contain the
necessary ingredients; but when they
are pcnned up they endeavor to supply
The material necessary for keeping up
their frames by devouring ashes and Gin
"ers. Let them have plenty of them.
MEAT FROM DOMESTIC ANIMALS
The amount of meat obtained from q
domestic animal sold by its live weight
is variable, and from experiments made
1T appears that the race and condition of
the animal, besides many other circum-
stances, Affect the result, and that cer-
tain animals yield as much as 70 per
cent OF meat, while others give 80 per
cent. The moan weight produced, now
ever. is calculated at So per cent. of the
1.-Two weight III beef crttle. In the case
OF sheep tho proportion is from 40 to so
per cent. From these experiments it
appears that the different products OBJ
tanned from oxen and sheep are as fol-
lows: An OK of the live weight of ]. .332
pounds yields meat, TIA pounds; skin,
4lo.2; grease. 81; blood, 55.1; feet and
hoofs, %; head, IL; tongue, &C; lungs
and heart, 1888 liver ndspleen, 20. 05;
lntestines, 66. 15; loss and evaporation,
154.352, making the total 1882 pounds.
The product from q sheep weighing
1lO.2 pounds are: Meat, 55. II pounds;
skin, 77l3; grease, 5.51 blood, 4.4O8;
feet and hoofS, 2.204; head, 4,408; in
testines, 66l3; loss and evaporation,
1886, making the total of 1902 pounds.
SAVE THE SoRaHUM SEED.-A few
years ago the value of sorghum seed was
not generally known nor appreciated.
Farmers, when harvesting the sorghum,
would leave the seed lying on the
ground if the chickens or hogs ate it,
all right, or if nothing got it it was all