Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-03-04
Items for Farmers.

Reader, as 10 the cause OF MS sDeeP
having sore eyes and sore mouths, J
think the first cause is humors in the
blood. The past season has been one
unsuited to the constitution and habits OF
the sheep; they do best when the sea
son is dry and warm.
Their tastes leading them to browse,
and the almost continual wet weather OF
the past fall, and exposure produce irrl'
taton of the eyes and lips, consequently
inflammation and bad state of the blood
ensue, causing the eruption or scab on
the lip which resemble warts.
would give them salt, regularly, once
week. Good Turks Island salt, two
quarts to the hundred, and more if they
will eat il. Once in TWO weeks add half
pint of sulphur 10 The hundred to
cleanse the blood.
For the sore eyes wash with weak
solution Of copperas water. 1t is also
the best remedy to allay inflammation on
horses ever tried.
FUI the Ore.iiPs, tar and sulphur 10 a
sure cure. At this season the tar will
need to be warmed then mix in the
sulphur; not so much but that you can
apply it to the affected part with a stick
Besmearing literally with the tar the
noses and lips of the entire flock at shear
ing and again in August, will prevent
the disorder. Sailing regularly once
a week, summer and winter, with an oc
casional dose Of sulphur, will make sure
the health of sheep, with plenty of good
keeping and not exposed to diseased
nocks.-N b. Farmer.
CHEAP FIELD FENcE.-A good and
sufficient field fence can be made with IS
inches in width of boards, and so rods
of fence to 1000 feet of boards. Set
the posts, and nail the first board nine
inches from the ground; then make the
spaces 5, G. Z, and 10 inches, 5 boards 3
inches each in 8 inches; Now turn
furrow 6 inches deep towards the fence
on each side. This brings the earth
within three inches of the bottom board
and adds six inches 20 the height of the !
fence, measuring from the bottom of the
furrow, and the ditch or bank makes it |
very unhandy for animals to get at the
ience. This makes fence 4 feet 10 in.
ches high.
l have several hundred rods of such
fence. The first was built five years ago,
1t has proved perfectly safe and suftici-
ent against cattle that were unruly. It'll
is not racked by the wind like fence OF
wider boards. Fourteen-feet boards,
with one post in the middle, take less
number of posts, and make as good a
fence as twelve. l have used white oak
boards at about twelve dollars per thous
and feet, and swamp oak split posts at 4
cents EACH GeneSsee Farmer.
FEEDING WHEAT MEAL.-When the
price Of oats is rs and so cts. per bushel,
barley $l.20 or SO, Indian corn upwards
of one dollar, and wheat only $3.50 as
the prices now stand, it is good economy
to have wheat ground into meal for feed
for all kinds of stock, instead of feeding
SO much oats and Indian corn. There is
far more good nourishment in a bushel
of wheat -four, unbolted, than there is in
two bushels of oats.
Equal quantities of wheat and oats, or
wheat and Indian corn, or wheat and
barley, will make most excellent food for
mich cows, teams of any kind, fattening
animals, sheep not excepted; and there
is no better food to make fowls lay well
than wheat.
EARLY LAMBs.--Although February
is not the season for lambs to be dropped.
!
still good number will be dropped be-
fore warm weather comes on. Therefore.
such ewes as will vean soon, should be
separated from large hocks, and have ac-
cess to dry and warm shed, where the
lambs will not perish, should they be
dropped when The weather is cold or
stormy.
In these times, when wool and mutton
command such good price, it is good
economy to save every lamb. A few
hours work with a few boards, may often
save several dollars worth of sheep.
PoULTRY.-Give poultry warm, dry,
sunny, well whitewashed quarters, clean
straw in their nests, and good feed OF
grain, once day; scraps from the fry
ing-pot, and unchilled water, or trough
OF running water; keep an ash-box in
one corner, always dry and dusty, and
throw in fresh ashes or lime occasionally.
Cows in milk require more food in pro-
portion to their size and weight, than