Ten Acres Enough; A Practical Experience Showing How a Very Small Farm May Be Made to Keep a Very Large Family with Extensive and Profitable Experienc - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIL . PIGS AND POULTRT LUCK AND ILL LUCK. Very early after taking possession, I invested twelve dollars in the purchase of seven pigs of the ordinary country breed. They were wanted to eat the many odds and ends which are yielded by ten acres, a good garden, and the kitchen. I did not look for much money profit from them, but I knew they were great as architects in building up a manure heap. Yet they were capital things with which to pack a meat-tub at Christmas, saving money from the butcher, as well as much running abroad to market. They shared with the cow in the abundant trimmings and surplus from the garden, eating many things which she rejected, and appropriating all the slop from the kitchen. In addition to this, we fed them twice a day with boiled bran, sometimes with a handful of corn meal, but never upon whole corn. This cooking of the food was no great trouble in the kitchen, but its effect on the pigs was most beneficial. They grew finely, except one which died after four months' feeding, but from what cause could not be ascertained. The consequence was, that when October came round, the six remaining ones were estimated by Dick to average at least one hundred and fifty pounds each, and were in prime condition for fattening. In the early part of that month their supply of cooker1 mush was increased. I am of opinion that farmers leave the fattening of their hogs too late, and that a month on corn, before December, is worth three months after it. By the tenth of December they were ready for the butcher, and on being killed, were found to average two hundred and twenty-four pounds, or nine hundred and forty-four in all. This being three times as much as we needed for home use, the remainder was sent to the store, where...
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Edmund Morris is the author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, 1980), Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999), and Theodore Rex (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2002). A pianist and private scholar of music, he has been studying Beethoven for a half century.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230324097
- ISBN 13 9781230324098
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages62
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