Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-09-19

the whole matter of agricultural expert
ments into discredit and disgrace. 1t
should not be son. E. Farmer.
From the Gcnesee Farmer.
Earring LAMBS.
Mr. Tucker: The practice of shearing
lambs, not those that are very small and
late however, has Obtained to considera-
Bile extent in this country, and where tried,
has l believe been generally approved.-
Ga my flock have found it to produce
the following good effects, without any
sensibIy injurious ones. Shearing the
lambs has efectualIy freed my flock
(about one hundred in number) from ticks,
but one having been found on my sheep
at the last two shearings-and it gives
the yearIing clip an even smooth surface,
free from the coarse hairs and unequal
locks which are usually found on the first
coat of the lamb. The difference in the
weightof 4 yearIing fleece from one shorn
when lamb, or one not shorn, if any, is
but very trifing, and in my opinion not to
be considered a moment when compared
with the advantages to be derived from
the practice If sheared at ALL lambs
should be shearel early, and then the
wool is so grown, that no danger need be
unprecedented from the effect of the cold
weather. | have sometimes as an expert
ment, sheared one side of a lamb, and left
the other untouched, but at the next shear
ing no one would have supposed such an
operation had been performed, unless "a
closer examination than usual of the wool
was made. | have therefore been accus-
toned to regard The wool so cut from the
lamb, as near y clear gain, and where
there was a number Of them, it would be
no despisable item in the profits of keep
ing sheep. In the following article which
[ copy from an English publication it
appears different opinions Of the practice
are entertained there, from those | have
expressed; and if any of your readers
have made themselves xperImentaIIy &C,
quaintcd with the practice and will give
the results for publication, they might,
while gratifying brother farmer be con-
ferring benefit on the public at large.
G. H. NJ.
at is customary for many Of the flock
masters in Sussex (more especially for
those who reside on the South Downs.
10 clip the wool of their lambs about the
month of June, by merely shearing off
the eytremiies of their feeces, and by 50
doing the lambs appear Of larger size,
and in better condition, than when COM
pIeteiy divested of their fieeces. To this
practice they are doubtless prompted, from
d desire OF giving their lambs a more
advantageous appearance to those who
annually resort thither for a fresh supply
Of that justly celebrated breed Of sheep,
(South Downs;) al the same time, it should
be borne in mind by those who purchase
lambs thus shorn, that their wool will be
much less valuable at the succeeding
shearing season, than that produced from
unshorn lambs, because the latter will
become teg wool (if suffered to remain
until next years shearng season, and the
tIreceS weigh a fourth more than the
produce Of those animals whose wool has
been cIipt; and bgsides it will also become
more valuable by al. or sd. per ID. oris-
ing from its being adapted for combine
purposes, where's the wool which has
DSNu I'll pI'Cu, DtCoill6S SluIll6u IN lis growth
lighter IN weight, and consequently less
valuable"
BEET SUGAR IN MICH1GAN,-Tb;s
new State bids fair to take the lead in the
manufacture Of sugar. We copv the fI-
lowing paragraph from a Detroit poDer.
at will be recoIIccted that our I,eris-
Iature, at its last session, passed law
offering liberal bounty on ali beet svo,r
raised in this State, and an extensive con-.
pany has been organized at White Pigeon
for its manufacture. We learn thai tho
agent of this company has recently been
dispatched to Pittsburgh and PhiIedelpbio.
with instructions to procure a hvdraulc
press and the necessary apparatus and
chemicals, used in the Manufacture If
sugar. The beet crop in that region is
said TO be in excellent condition, and prom.
'seS great yield. The success of the
enterprise can hardly longer be considered
doubtful"
This is good news and we trust tho
expectations will be fully reaIIized.-Cen
Farmer.