Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-08-31
wnat Sneep TO Keep.

Wnat Sheep 10 Keep.
Such as suit your condition. If
you have hills, put the Merinos on
them. fyou have hills almost sterile
and inaccessible, the little PaularS
will find their way over them, and sup
port themselves. They will do this
where other sheep die outright
They will tand bad weather, will
rear their young well will, let alone,
support themselves but with good
treatment will do better. The rich,
level plains are the place for the large, |
long wooded sheep. These are closely
allied, in keeping, to clttle. They
are large, and require care and good
feed. A few together only should be
kept, as they will not herd and thrive
as the Merinos. The Merinos will
not only do to scramble up and down
the hills, but they are great walkers
a trick they got in Spain, their native
country. They will therefore bear 10
be driven at even great distances
But not so with mutton sheep. They
require nursing and great attention.
and then they will thrive beyond what
the PauIar or InfantandO will do
But mntton must be the main reliance
with these. The South Downs are the
best where mere quality Of meat is
concerned; but for weight of carcass
and profit the Leicester and Cots
wolds, with their carcasses, the Ok
fordshires and Shropshires, and the
Hampshire Downs are Preferred
These are the best kinds of sheep, to
be used as occasion or circumstances
(as we have indicated may require.
A BUTTER MACHINE.-A machine
for working butter is one of the new
inventions in England. 1t consists
of movable mental cylinder suspend
ed from a small cast iron frame. The
bottom of the cylinder is a loose
piece of galvanized iron, and above
it the cylinder is suspended in bowl
of water, and the butter is placed in
the cylinder and pressed by screw
piston, the result of which is that the
butter is forced through the holes in
to the water in the shape ofvermicel-
Ii. By this means all the buttermilk
is excluded, and the butter is found
to be much closer and sweeter than
when made by hand.
STACKING HAY AND GRAN.-LOng
and narrow stacks are the best for
hay; they feed out better. But
where stock is to be wintered in a
field that is well sheltered, it is the
best plan to make several stacks in
order to distributed the manure. The
liquid portion of the manure is what
is chiefly wasted when stock is con.
fined too much on one spot. Round
stacks are the best for bound grain
q rain proof top can be put on to sucf
more surely For barley and Other
unbound grain, long, square-corner
ed stack is convenient shape.
For scours in calves, pigs or sheep
&. a correspondent of the Maine Farmer
takes a quantity of good oats, boilS
them one hour, and gives them freely
of the tea until cure is Effected
From many trials he is satisfied thu
remedy is safe and certain.
A correspondent Of the Canada
Farmer had a fine clear-limbed plumb
tree that stood near an old leach bar
rel, while his other trees were badly
affected by black warts. He ha.
since put dressing of leached ashes
around the roots of his trees and il
not trouble by the warts.
G.. l.. Ernesttown, of Addingto1
County, writes to the Canada Farmer
that he is now raising a bull calf,
cross from a Galloway bull and &;
Canadian cow-which weighed 81:
pounds at three months old; and a
4 months old weighed 434 pounds
He was fed only on skinned milk
and Indian meal since he was Is day
old.
A Steuben county correspondent o
the Genessee Farmer says that h
cured three-year old heifer of suck
ing herself by smearing the teat
night and morning with soft grease
and then busting them thorough,
ly with pulyerised cayenne pepper
The applications were continued
about a week, and a perfect cure al
fected. rrr re- rr.l,-
A few years ago Mr.. Mead Weeks
Of Genoa, N. Y, while harvesting dis
covered a single head of wheat whicl
was unlike any other in the field
The seed from this has been CAREFUL
cultivated, till it has become consid
erably spread over territory of L
or 20 miles around. 1t is hipbl
spoken Of in the Albany Cultivator, "a
new variety of white wheat of supt
rior qualities. 1t is early, productiv'
and makes excellent -four.
A small piece of fresh lime put il
to the KEITH e in which water
potatoes are boiled, will it is sale