254 Management of a Home Farm. 
to make such well-flavoured bacon as when mixed with oatmeal 
or finely-crushed oats. A weekly invoice will also be made up 
from the slaughterhouse-book, and sent to the cook, the duplicate 
being retained for making up the half-yearly returns. 
Park Farm. 
No. 30. Week ending 2^th April, 1862. 
The Eight Hon. Lord 
Dr. to Home Farm. 
Delivered to E. F. 
By G. H. 
Description. 
Lbs. 
Kate. 
1 Welsh 
1 Half-bred 
1 Welsh 
72 
41 
80 
53 
68 
37 
76 
d. 
£. s. d. 
Beef 
Pork 
427 
313 
64 
804 
25 2 6 
R. S., Farm Bailiff. 
The shepherd, with his assistant, ought to manage the killing 
department in addition to other duties. 
Among the remaining supplies, poultry must not be forgotten, 
the more especially as the question of quality often forms a sore 
point of dissatisfaction and complaint. There is no denying the 
fact that fowls — young and good, it may be — which have the run 
of the farmyard, are not equal, on the spit or at table, to coop- 
fed or forced birds ; and without a regular poultry-woman, a 
liberal outlay, and fair accommodation, the supply cannot be 
judiciously managed. No average farm can be expected from 
its own breeding to send in a full supply throughout the year, 
unless there are breeding-yards and other appointments to match. 
Where this is not the case, the better plan is to purchase as many 
good young birds — avoiding cocks — in the neighbourhood, as pos- 
sible. Get them in succession, just at the period when they 
would be sent to the local markets ; then put them up in close 
coops, a dozen at a time, and in ten days, with judicious feeding, 
they will come out nice plump birds, with delicate white flesh. 
♦ Only one rate per lb. is here entered ; but this requires to be varied according 
to market value. 
