Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-06-25
VOL. 3.--NO. Al.
AGRICULTURAL.

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spring do not turn your sheep into the pasture
until it is well up, until it is snkle high, so
as to have something to shade the grounds
| keep your sheep close and feed hay and grain
of some kind--they will eat it well If kept
from grass. When put upon pasture, have
three more fields and change them often,
so that their pasture may be sweet. / haVo
known neighbor loose three hundred sheep
out of six hundred in one sutnmer. He divi-
ded them into three large fields, with no shade
except what the fence on the south side of each
field made. The sheep lay along The fencs,
and when the nose fly came, the sheep were to
be seen running with their noses to the ground
fighting the fly, and eating only just ehoughto
keep life in them. The sheep did net go more
than eight or ten rods from the fence, and this
was eaten close to the ground, when there was
plenty of pasture on the north side ofthe field;
as a consequence, the sheep poisoned them
selves in their own filth. The fly laid its eggs
in the nostrils Of the sheep, and they soon
died in great numbers of SWORN in the head"
Now, you would ask, how should he sasa
his shcep9 He should have put them all into
one field and forced them to 60 farther from
the first shower he should have changed them
to another field. Whenever You see your
sheep run with their noses down to the ground
drive them to your farthest pasture the fly
will stay about where the sheep have lain
Keep changing them from field to field and
you will not be troubled With SWORN in the
head. d.''-Correspondent Of the Gennessee Farmer.
WHY Dew Hurts SHEEp.-From time-im-
memorial it has been precept with shepherds
not to let the sheep turn out upon the dewy
grass, o. Craze in damp or marshy regions.
Why the dew Injuries sheep no one couh IN
derstand, although the fact vas well estab-
lished. Siebald, the great comparative anat-
omist, has explained the mystery in his treatise
on Entozoa. The eggs of these creatures, he
states, are deposited in the bodies of cattle,
and then voided. They lie until the rain
washes them into the earth, or the farmer
| filings them in manure upon the soil. Tho hu-
midty serves to develope them they fix them
selves against the moist grass, and with it tho
sheep carry these tiny entozoa into their
stomach; once there, the business Is soon ac-
compished- Thus it is that damp seasons ara
prejudicial to sheep, multiplying the diseases
of the lungs and liver to which these animals
subject.
CUCUMBER Bues.-Most gardeners are much
annoyed by cucumber bugs, which alike prey
upon the cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and
squash-the latter being its favortte. Various
plans lsare been devised for their protection,
such as SCOT, &c. A method which has been
practised with nearly entire success, is to
form mixture of equal parts of finely ground
black pepper and wheat -four, and dust tho
plants, while the dew is upon them with this
mixture, using an ordinary -four or pepper
box. 1t is fact generally known, that black
pepper is so obnoxious to most insects, that
few will approach or stay in its presence. The
object of the -four is to combine with the pep-
per, and with the water of dew, to form paste,
which adheres to the leaves for many days, un.
less washed of by heavy rains, in which case
he application should be renewed.
WHEN DOES Wool Grow I'll answer, when
It is wanted to cover the sheep and keep it
warm. From the time the sheep is sheared
until the frost comes you can see the shape of
every clip of the shears when the frost and
,old weather come, it grows out immediately
Now, if You wish for a heavy clip, feed when
nc "ooi is growing. Ii you nave eny extra
eed, then is the time to use it. The wool
iraws very hard upon the carcass, and growing
,ut fast deceives almost every farmer. They
hink their sheep are doing we'll when they are
growing poor. l can make an additional Iouud
# wool with one bushel of corn, and my sheep
'ili afterwards winter one bushel of corn
asier. Let your sheep get poor while the
'ool is growing, and you cannot recruit them
ntii the next summer.-J. d. Chamberlain.
tennessee Farmer.
TO MAKE AN EvERGREES Grow Coxracr.-
you have an Evergreen, or Norway Spruce,
alsam Fir, American Spruce, or any of tho
ines, and desire to make it grow more COM
act, just pinch out the bud from every lead
lg branch, all around and over it.. Repeat
his process again next year, at this time, and
our evergreen will continue thereafter to
row thickly.
INCREASE OF FISH IN THE OHIo.-The Wells.
urgh Herald notes the very perceptible in
ease of fish in the Ohio river, since the with.
avail of so many steam boats. Fish were un-
ualiy abundant last spring, and this season
ore so.
The boats, the Herald says, are supposed to
We disturbed the fish in their spawning OBJ.
atoms, and their number were from that
use, doubtless diminished.
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