VI. Keep of Oxen. Facts connected with the expense of 

 feeding farm animals are ahvays important ; and therefore I state that 

 at Sandy Bay, the oxen employed in stone work, have been found 

 by careful experiment, to require 25 lbs. of hay and four quarts of 

 Indian meal to each ox per day. 



VII. Slaughter House Offal. An arrangement at the Poor 

 House in Danvers is so creditable for its economy, that I shall here 

 insert it, as it was related to me by the superintendent. The whole 

 management of the establishment, as well within as without the house, 

 is excellent. 



A contract is made with an extensive slaughtering establishment, 

 two miles from the house, to purchase all its offal. Tlie carts are 

 to be sent for it once a day in the autumn, and twice a week at other 

 seasons. They agree to pay 32 cents for the offal of every beef, 

 animal there slaughtered. The offal of other animals, calves, sheep, 

 or swine, killed there, is not charged. The proceeds are then sub- 

 jected to the following assorting process : 



From four to five pounds of clear meat are usually taken from 

 each head, which is used either in a fresh or salted state by the 

 inmates of the house. The heads are then boiled for the extraction 

 of the tallow, and then thrown to the swine. After being thoroughly 

 picked by them, they are gathered up and sold to the sugar boilers, 

 for the purpose of making animal carbon for the refining of sugar, at 

 $4.50 per ton. The jaw bones are sold to the button makers, at 

 62^ cents per hundred ; the leg bones, to the same manufacturers, 

 at $20 per thousand. The claws of the hoof are sold to the comb 

 makers at | cent per piece. The skins from the legs are sold to 

 the glue makers at 1^ cent per piece, or $5 for four hundred leg 

 bones ; and from the feet is extracted the oil of which 250 gallons 

 were made the last year, 1836. A considerable amount of tallow is 

 obtained from each offal, amounting the last year, 1S36, to 3,500lbs. 

 which sold for 10 cents per pound. Upon the offals a large number 

 of swine are profitably maintained, and fattened with a moderate 

 allowance of other food. Tlie amount of valuable manure made in 

 this way is no small item in the account. 

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