The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-09-14
FARM NOTES.

answer to keep sheep in large tlOcks. |
Out of flock Of little less than ], 100 |
head, that he was interested in he lost in |
one winter 548 head, while his loss when |
his flock was from 800 to 800 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 tocls are
kept in pastures, and as that ground
is usually travelled over daily, the
less the numbers are the better it
will be for the sheep, even if the
pastures are ever 80 good, Were we
to embark again in wool-growng, VIC
would not, from our previous expert
cnce, keep over two hundud head
in flock. That is 10 say, if We had
thousand head, we should keep them
in five separate ilocks.
HINTS on MILKING Cows. A man
who had done his own milking employed
boy to do it; he shrunk tho 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 slTnnk tho
milk ten per cent. III 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 II downward motion, Tightening
the grip and forcing ont the milk ; then
lets go his hold, Keeping the thumb and
finger in circle, carries up the hand and
,,,..,.,,g ~ g,,urIl u ufruiDli ibp uIIGr and
closes and pulls down NS before, and 80
repeats until done The philosophy, II
any, is to give as near rs may be the
samo motion that tho calf does in suck
ing Many good COW is partially de-
spoiled of her good qualities III conse-
qucnco Of being improperly MIXED.
FARMERS, KEEP ACCOUNTS Farmers
are prone 10 neglect this important mat
ter, and by such negligence are liable to
II great many diSappontments, III the
shape Of store and other bills, which
when presented are Il surprise to them,
aud has tendency to create II suspicion
on their part that the merchants are not
honest, while on the other hand their
families nre bcratcd for extravaganza.
Receipts and expenditures arc never
noted; the profits and losses in any
branch of farming are unknown uncon-
sciousIy debts MULTIPLY; 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. Carelessness III one
particular is apt to foster and bcgct
carcessness in others. The fact is,
every farmer should have his journal
and LEDGER, and keep his accounts as
promptly and correctly ~ the merchant
EXTRA FooD FOR HOGS. ashes
and clay are beneficial for hogs when
shut up to iattcn. Hogs are fond Of
clndcrs, coal ashes and clay, and improve
in condition i'll eating u certain portion
Of them every day. Some persons are
unable to account for this singular pro-
ponsity in swine. Poultry arc very fond
Of egg shells, lime, sand, and it is well
known these substances are necessary IN
order to form the shells Of eggs, and to
furnish material for bones for fowls.
Now, il is reasonable to suppose that
swine eat ashes for tho purpose Of sup
plying the material for their bones, and
in the scale Of intelligence is truly won
dcrful, for ashes contain ingredients
which are necessary to form bones clay,
SILICA conI, soft lime, stone and rotten
wood with their food, which contain the
necessary ingredients; but when they
nro pcnucd up they Cndcayor TO supply
the material necessary fer Keeping up
their frames by dcvorwinE ashes and cin-
ders Let thom have plenty of them.
MEAT FROM DOMESTIC ANIMALS. -
The amount Of meat obtained from Il
domestic animal sold by it's live weight
is variable, and from experiments mado
it uppcnrs that the race and condition Of
the animal, besides many other circum-
stances, affect the result, and that GER
tain animals yield as much as 70 per
cent. of meat, while others give 80 per
cent. Tho mean weight produced, now
over, IL calculated at 80 per cent. of tho
live weight in beef cattle. In the case
OF sheep the proportion il from 40 to 50
per cent. From these experiments it
appears that the different products Oh
tanned from oxen and sheep are Us fol-
lows: An OK Of the live weight OF / 1872
pounds yields meat, TIA pounds; skin,
1l0.2; grouse, 81; blood, 55.1; feet and
hoofs, %; head II l.; tongue, co; lungs
and heart, 1888; liver andspleen, 2O.O5
intestincs, GG. 10; loss and evaporation,
1jl.352, making tho total 1882 pounds.
The product from sheep weighing
1902 pounds are: Meat, 80 Il pounds;
skin, T7l3; grease, SOL ; blood, i,iOS
feet and hoofs, 2.2Ol; head, 4 iOS ; IN
tcstincs, G.Gl3; loss md evaporation
1886, making the total Of 1lO.2ponnds
SAVE TIE SORGHUM 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
right. in agricultural papers Of to-day,
sorghum seed is highly recommended ~
food for horses, hogs, chickens, etc.
This is n step in the right direction.
Griddle cakes made of sorghum flour nro
similar i'll iHsto and appearance TO
buckwhont cakes, and Of mildcr and
better flavor. A person might easily he
deceived, thinking he was eating buck
wheat cnkcs, when in reality they were
made Of sorghum flour Some Of the "su-
periOr brands of buckwheat flour we
frequently see advertised are made from
sorghum seed. One way of curing the
seed is, take il when tho sorghum is har.
vested aud scatter it on tho grass where
it can not be disturbed, leave it there n
couple Of weeks or SO. A few showers
or frosts will not hurt it, but if it is