Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-04-18
Keeping Sheep.


and judicous breeding. A good staple
of wool cannot be grown by uneven OF
ftful keeping; when sheep are well pas
ured in early summer and permitted tc
grow poor during fall and winter, anc
then made to thrive the following spring
and summer, until clipped, the staple i,
uneven, being full grown at the ends, but
stunted and small in the middle. Woods
thus grown are unfit for delaines, and in.
jured for any purpose, much wool oi
the Kind described is grown in the tim
bered lands of the Wst, and some in
Vermont and New Hampshire. We do
not propose going into tin minutae of the
manner of feeding. IIoaing, watering,
sailing or littering, for ever man should
know that sheep should be kept dry in
winter, and warmly litte,ed, and gener-
ously fed, aud have all tie pure air they
need it is evident to every intelligent
manager of sheep that good keeping is
to the profits Of sheep Rising and wool
growing; what manure is to the profits
Of the corn, or other cops grown upon
our farms.
We say, then, pasture well let there
be no scrimPng i0 that department of
our sheep husbandry, (ctst what it may
but give them such pa,tnriug IS will
bring them 10 The Jarn ingood condition,
we mean in high condition; sheep that
come to The barn lasty, and are regularly
fed on nothing but good hay, corn fodder
and straw, properly dealt out and
enough OF it, will winter and hold their
flesh without any extra feed but let
sheep be poorly pastared, and no care,
or extra feed in winter, viii make up the
loss.
Rresdino eue. o,a ,r,ts .lonll'
have extra feed the last part of autumn,
and first and lost mort of r,;o,or. :, ,,o,,.
well. If a lamb is not well kept, and
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when farming on q largsr scsla than
now we have fed to sheep and cattle. IN
4 winter, nearly ! 900 bushels of turnips;
We looked upon the turnips, some as the
nan that fed bis horse on Indian meal
md saw-dust. did upon the saw-dust, the .
ess saw-dust the better. We do not
hink there is much taIlow or wool in
urnins, but they keep sheep healthy.
make ewes that lamb early. give a rood
uDply of milk. and are very cheaDIy
rown; we therefore saw feed turnins TO
our sheep. with lust about as much
rain or meal as though YOU fed no tur-
ips. that is all we can saw for torni2.
5 to extra feed and the quantity. we saw
,r proft feed vonr Iamb, iys, not
uantity lbs il more or les.) that will
oe, them rrovino as ,hov v,p,1 ,y;,,
ood simmer faa3 yo.,. owes g., ,,o,b
, i naedad ,o keon or hr;oo ,lo,,, nm ~
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" 'He'n win 'u' 10" o' MIR Inc !
IAN that does less than that, pinche5 his
1ck, binches himself and his pocket ]
he Aoct ctnasfar artbof d,es all tboso t5;,cs I
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ioId' "y larger ana better ieece OF
ool, more and better lambs, in solid
,mfort. a deserved renutation for him.
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e holding OF any of the offices so I'M
orthily filed in this generation. He h
II. his shoe, for foil rricos and has the ,,
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actor 10 the purchaser
We are not one Of the tall sheep
isers or wool growers of Vermont: we
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I'e'' N'' OP""'-' u y" ''''ue'S Si'eiu' |
t") y have Vls''ed most OF the tocks r
Merinos OF any rePnte IN Vermont,
ID have as yet iounu none that should y