Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it

e we purchased them, but were all consumed at the end of four months, with the exception of seven hens and a cock, which we saved for "stock." Thus in the time I have mentioned we killed ten cou

y consumed during the time they were getting in order for the table, three bushels of barley, at $1 25 the bu

barley and meal

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likewise to deduct from the barley and rice the quantity consumed by them in the four months. Now these eight were large fowls when bought, and well worth 50 cents each. We must allow for their food at least a fourt

the four months were expired had given us two dozen eggs, which at that time of year, even in the country, were not to be p

had the free range of the fields, and drooped in confinement, and from want of the grass and worms which they had been accustomed to feed on. We had a house constructed for them in the meadow nearest the house, and soon found that they throve much better, and did not require so much food. We had no trouble with them, except in seeing that the

he nursery dinner; and when they were removed to the kitchen, they were collected together and put into the rice-bowl for the chickens. We always fed them three times d

person who has the charge of them throwing down just as much again grain as the fowls can consume. We have

plan to prevent waste is to have a meal-room in the house, and as much given out daily as is considered necessary for the consum

ht ours, of course gained some money by their sale. When we reared our own chickens from our own eggs, we received much more emolument from our yard

d," is a very true one, and another is quite as good: "the best manure you can put on the ground is the foot of the master." As a proof of our a