Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-23

formed, and the lower hole causes
draught, and the upper one perform
the functions of chimney; The hear
of the tree is dry and contains a consid
cradle amount of pitch, and when mani
pulated as L have described, burn:
briskly.
1t is generally necessary to feed this
fire with some fresh fuel from time to
time. But one man can keep q large
number of trees thus burning, and will
get twenty or a hundred trees down
thus much quicker and easier than he
could otherwise do. In similar man
ner, when the tree is cut down, it is
cut j. TO pieces by being burned ia two.
A hole is bored into the log from the
| top, and another from the side, till they
meet as before described, when the
perpendicular hole acts as fiue and the
horizontal one furnishes the draught.
1t often happens that in burning a large
tree into lengths, for saw-logs, there is
not more timber wasted than would re-
suit from chopping off the log with an
AK.
GRAPE HINTS.
Grapes coming In bearing should not
be permitted to perfect large crops of
fruit while young. 1t Is excusable TO
fruit bunch or so on n young vine,
''just to test the vine," but no more
should be permitted till the vine has
age and strength. Vigorous growth,
and great productiveuess, are the anti
podes of the vegetable world. EncOur-
age as much foliage as possible on the
vines, and aim to have as strong shoots
at the base as at the top of the cane;
this can be done by pinching out the
points of the strong shoots after they
have made growth of five or six
leaves. This viii mako the weak ones
grow stronger. Young vines grow
much faster over a twiggy branch, stuck |
In for support, than over a straight
stick as trellis, and generally do bet |
ter every way. Where extra fine |
lunches of grapes are desired, pinch |
back the shoot bearing it about fOur or |
five inches above the bunch. This |
should not be done indiscriminately |
with all the lunches. Too.much pinch
ing and stopping injuries the production |
of good wood for the next season.
These hints are for amateurs, who |
have a few vines on trellises: for large |
vineyard culture, though the same |
hOlG EOOlB 81 idI dS Iutl |
go, they will vary In their application.
-Gd1 dene,'s' Monthly.
AsCERTAIN-T0G AGE OF SHEEP.
Although the age of the ram may in
some cases be asccrtained by the num-
Der of rings or knobs on his horns, yet
from the large number of homeless
sheep, and many other reasons, it is
safer and more satisfactory to determine
the age by the teeth. The sheep has
eight cutting teeth in the front of the
lower jaw, and six molar or grinding
teeth, in each jaw above and below
When the lamb is born, it sometimes
has no cutting teeth, but it generally
has two, and before it becomes a month
old, the full number, eight, appear in
the front of the lower jaw. When the
sixteen months old, the two central cut
ting teeth are shed, and in process of
time replaced by others, which attain
their foil size when the sheep is two
years old. Between the age of two and
three years, the next two incisors, or
cutting teeth are shed, and slowly re-
placed by others, which also attain
their full size when the animal is three
years old. At four years old, the sheep
has six full grown cutting teeth, and at
five the front teeth are all of an equal
size, being fully developed.
In the sixth or seventh year the teeth
become discolored, as the enamel begins
to wear off, and they exhibit symptoms
of decay. For this reason ewes should
not be kept for breeding after they are
seven years old. Sometimes they are
kept much longer than this, but it is
well known that old ewes seldom pro-
duce strong and vigorous lambs. The
culling out of old ewes and replacing
them with choice well-bred young ones,
is very important part of sheep hus-
bandry. Canada Farmer.