Dacjohns--Changes

[dacjohns]

For all my friends out there that celebrate the Winter Solstice. Here's a celebratory greeting to you since the solstice occurs at 1747 UTC, 1247 Central Time.

(Google it if you don't know what UTC is. Googling is good, you learn things. Sometimes you even learn things that aren't true.)

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice-customs.html



And a thread here on SS about Yule logs.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4098

 

[sylvie]

Thank you for the Solstice greeting and precise time.

 

[dacjohns]

The time might be off for the Central Time Zone. I saw another website with the same time for Eastern.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Add to list:

Send biological children (does not include want to be adopted ) kids some jerky.

Hmph!

 

[dacjohns]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFYNeyLG-g&feature=related

 

[dacjohns]

Add to list:

Send biological children (does not include want to be adopted ) kids some jerky.

Hmph!

Sorry Kim,

After giving my kids and my sister-in-law, who does a lot for us, some jerky there's hardly even any left for me. Guess I need to get another deer.

Don't send the rabbit after me.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

hi dac!

I'm so glad that the days are going to be getting loooonger!!!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Add to list:

Send biological children (does not include want to be adopted ) kids some jerky.

Hmph!

Sorry Kim,

After giving my kids and my sister-in-law, who does a lot for us, some jerky there's hardly even any left for me. Guess I need to get another deer.

Don't send the rabbit after me.

You know I only play. Adam is out in my mom's back lot hoping to snag a deer. Send successful hunting vibes! We don't have many places to hunt here, mom's back lot is only the back 3 acres of her 10.

We have public lands, but you need to be 10 feet off the ground and thanks to Dick's we won't have a climbing stand until next year.

Anywhoo, hunting vibes!

 

[dacjohns]

This was posted by bossroo over on BYC.

For anyone ready to try their hand at 'self sufficency' here's a little tid bit.

It's from an old book published in 1947 called Southern Crops.

One chapter deals with the amount of food a farm family of 5, two adults and 3 children would eat. Based on a plan by Clemson University.

Product yearly amount how to provide

milk 364 gallons two cows, freshing up a different seasons.....

Butter 260 pounds reserve 15 gallons (milk) per week for butter

Meat
5 servings per week persons
48 pounds pounds of beef and veal 240 pounds beef one beef -500 pounds live weight
76 pounds of pork and lard 380 pounds of pork and lard 3 hogs - 180 pounds live weight
6 pounds of lamb, mutton, fish, or games 30 pounds of lamb or other meats one lamb - 60 ounds live weight

Eggs and Poultry

10 eggs weekly per person 2600 eggs from 30 hens

chicken served twice a week 100 chickens for meat A flock of 50 hens will provide this egg and meat supply. Hatch 200 baby chicks each year.

Cereals
20 t 24 pounds of cereal products weeakly 20 bushels of wheat furnishing 784 pds of flour 1 or 2 acres each of corn and wheat
10 bushels of corn furnishing 480 pounds of meal


vegetables
174 pounds fresh greens
65 heads of lettuce
19 heads of cabbage
tomatoes 4.6 bushels fresh
108 quarts canned

other vegetables 303 pounds fresh
Potatoes 10 bushels


Fruit:

12 bushels fresh
180 quarts canned. 10 apple trees, 8 peach trees, 4 pear trees, 4 plums trees, 4 fig trees, 100 strawberry plants, 16 grapes, 50 each dewberry, blackberry, rspberry.



Wow! That's a lot of eating. Happy Farming!

When I feel like it or get around to it I will put in the proper thread or someone else can do it for me. Thank you.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Wow. wow.

And here I was thinking of downsizing my chickens?! wow. I haven't hatched 200 chicks in a year yet!