Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-07-22

CoTToN SEED FOR SnfEP.-In the March
number Of the CuHirafOr, a correspondent
wanted to know if . feeding cotton seed to
sheep would make them shed their WOOL" l
will answer his question with my own ex-
perience in feeding sheep.
| always give my sheep cotton seed in win
ter, with salt, and sometimes corn. never
saw better wool sheep in this country. Sheep
fed on cotton seed Will raise finer lambs than
if fed on corn and fodder alone. | sometimes
give them good fodder, a change in diet.
As to what kind of food will cause them to
shed, | cannot answer. Perhaps our Texan
friends can give some light upon the subject
The best remedy have ever found, TO pre-
vent the wool from pulling out, Is the shears.
W hen your sheep shed, do not let that deter
YOU from shearing the same place, at shear
ing time | have found this TO be eec
tive remedy No matter how short the wool
NAV be, shear it Oft. J. Thomas, IN
Southern CuItiratOr.
TIE TRADE FOR FARMER.-Every young
man who means to be farmer, ought first to
learn some mechanical trade We would
rather learn the carpenters and joiner than
any other, as it will oftener come into use on
the farm That farmer who understands this
trade has many advantages over one who does
not. and has to run for mechanic for every
little Job required to be done on the farm.
Even if he worked but a short time at the
trade, say one season onl y, under good mas
ter he Will find the knowledge of great bene-
fit to him, many times. If young man is
robust and healthy, this trade in connection
with a good practical education, sufficient to
qualify him as teacher of district school in
the winter season, is about as good a start in
life as any Young man can have who is not
furnished with a capital ready to his hand,
and the rare faculty to know how to use 1t.
To DESTROY THE SrRAwBERY GRUD.-A
writer says; On grounds that infested
by this insect. and perhaps by others, make
numerous piles of dry brush, and other ma
terial, and then watching the season when
the beetles begin to rise, and, in the early
part of the evening fire several of the brush
heaps, and the beetles and all other insects
that chance to be on the wing, being dazzed
and bewildered by the light, fly into the fire
and are consumed. The next evening, fire
other heaps, and SO on. The top of small
tree should be stuck in the ground in the
middle of the pile, against the branches of
which the beetles will strike and fall directly
into the fire If farmers and cultivators
could be persuaded to practice some such
course annually, it would be found to be very
effectual in diminishing the numbers Of those
depredating insects, and largely increasing
all kinds of crops This course Is pursued
by the planter in the South to destroy the
cotton moth
SHELTER YOUR MANURE In the prepare
ton of farm yard dung" says Nesbitt,
- there are two or three points worthy to be
observed. The first is that many OF these
substances are soluble. Now the common
way of preparing farm yard dung, everybody
is acquainted with large mass of straw
and excrements is allowed to rot in the midst
of a quantity Of water, where, instead of
genial heat produced, it is washed by the
water, which, saturated with soluble matter,
is allowed to run away, as if the cleaner the
straw, the better the manure. Now it SO
happens that every one of these substances
carried away is the most valuable; in fact,
only the insoluble and most worthless are
left behind. A quantity Of dung thus ex-
posed, will lose its potash, its soda, the
Greater part of its ammonia and it's soluble
salts of lime. all of which, with very little
care, could have been preserved, to the great
advantage and profit of the farmer
A NICE CAKE FOR TEA.-oeed one pound
of raisins, but do not cut them; cut half a
pound of citron take one pound of flour,
one of white sugar, one of butter and six
arrs Beat all we'll torether and add lastly