ECONOMY OF FARMING. 



15 



5, Morning, | lb. of hay. 



About 10 A. M., I lb. of Hacksel, with 8 loth (4 oz.) of oats, and 8 



loth of bran, or groats moistened with some water. 

 About 2 P. M., I lb of hay. 

 Evening, 1 lb. of straw. 

 He has likewise given p. 89. the following table of Variations of Fodder, which may 

 be practised successfully with sheep : 



Petri allows on an average to a sheep, of hay, 3 to 3^ lbs. per head, and says : 

 "In the winter a full grown sheep of 70 lbs. live weight, eats, in fattening-fodder, 3 

 lbs. of hay, or with some hay 3 to 4 lbs. potatoes, or 14 to 18 lbs. of cabbage leaves, 

 by which he weekly gains 1^ lbs. of flesh and wool." " The following example, of 

 a slaughtered sheep weighing 116 lbs., gives the proportions of the parts : 



. 54 lbs. 



Flesh and tallow 



Fat taken from the entrails 



Liver, lights, and milk 



Blood 



Head; paunch, and other entrails 



5 " 



3 " 



42|« 



112 



Leaving for blood and waste 4 



Total 116 



24. Few swine are kept on the usual farms which have not marshy or 

 woody pastures, or breweries or distilleries, and only then, when the num- 

 ber of full grown year-old, or more, of swine amount to thirty, beside pigs, 

 will a man be occupied the whole day in feeding and taking care of them. 



Our Author in the 2d vol. p. 327, speaks thus of the mode of feeding swine ; "The 

 summer feeding of swine consists either in pasture, or in stall-foddering with green 

 fodder plants (soiling), or slops from the dairy, brewery and distillery." — And, "If 

 swine only gain sufficient nourishment, as they run wild in the pastures, they must 

 grow well ; and they need water, a pool in wdiich they can roll themselves in hot 

 weather." " If there are no pastures for them, or not sufficient, they must be foddered 

 in their yards with young clover, luzerne, vetches, and buckwheat." " Where they 



