The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-23

Why SHEEP DoN'r PAY.-The Vest
cyn Rural says:
We have often noticed that the cry
" sheep don't pay comes from class OF
farmers who generally fail to make any
kind of business pay well. In the first
place, they stock up with animals that
can be bought cheap-those that some
shrewder breeder SELLS to make room for
something better. In their opinion it
does not pay to give big price for a
ram, so a grade animal is bought and
turned out with the flock Some Of the
increase resemble the sire, some the dams
and others are like neither. They are
uneven in size, dissimilar in build, and
turn of 6eeces that will contribute to ev.
cry lot in the sortiDg-room Of the factory,
When the SURF lus animals are fattened,
they are found to possess as few attrac.
tions for the butcher as the feeces afford.
ed to the wool.buyer. Some are well
built, and carry their flesh 10 fair guam.
titles at the proper points; but, after all,
they are no advantage to the flock, as
their better appearance makes more prom.
inent the Deficiencies Of the remaining an.
finals. Even when well cared for, the
chances are all against such flock pay.
ing for the necessary care and investment.
Where they would pay for these, flock
Of good sheep would make money for
their owner.
No ram should be used that is not bet
ter in blood and build than the flock he
serves, if such an one could be secured.
The more marked his excellencies the
better and the purer his " blood" the
more certainly will it "tell " in his in.
crease.
Again, the men who make sheep pay
do not stint or starve them. Good feed.
ing is as necessary as careful breeding.
We do not mean by this that flock
needs to be impounded and crowded with
feed like fattening hogs True economy
would suggest that, to a prudent extent,
they be made the scavengers of the stalk
field and the stubble field always except.
ing when these ale stocked with burrs) !;
and, when convenient, the blue.gr pas.
ture also. But the farmer should be
careful to supply from the hay-rack and
corn.pen, with an unstinted hand, all that
these may lack of keeping up the fullest
thrift in both fleece and flesh. In no
other way can he get so good price for
his crops. Four bushels Of corn, when
converted into four pounds Of wool land
if properly fed it will make more), will
no longer require threc.iourths Of its
quantity and value to get the other
fourth to market, as is now the case.
When converted into wool, corn can oe
moved from Chicago to the seaboard for
. cents per bushol and most of this can
be saved by selling the clip to manufact-
urers in your own neighborhood.
TREE PEpDLERs.-The following trees
and plants have been sold and highly re.
commended in my neighborhood, and q
correspondingly high price asked and OBJ
tanned for them, Can you tell me if they
are worth moro than Ordinary plants and
, trees? The Empress grape, budded or
wild stock, price 50 each wild goose
plum, 81 each, not subject to curculio
Foster and Van Bnren peach, 81, or
Canada stocks, represented as being free
from attack of boTer, and very long lived
, 40 years; pears in variety, on French
stocks, roots 6 years, top years old, ST.
, hybrid cherry, $3.50; Scotch gooseberry
tree, Soc; great Alpine strawberry, sc
per 100-has no runners. All guaran.
teed verbally to bear iu two years and
to outlive and outbear any other fruit
t etc never heard Of the Canada peach
> stock, nor of some other of the foregoing
wonders. Are they humbugs or not p
) l.. BerryciUe, w.
, Some Of these trees may be good, but
as the verders make false claims we car
have no confidence that they are. We
have heard of the Empress grape; it is
probably worthless, and is unknown tc
pomologists. The wild goose is good
native plum, and may be true tU namo
, The Foster peach is good new sort-the
Van Buren, worthless. The pears may
be good or not The hybrid cherry is
doubtless an imposition-the Scotch
gooseberry tree unquestionably so. The
; Alpine bush strawberry, which does no,
, send out runners. is small, and of little OF
no valae--not worth SOC per 100 Nc
f reliable nurseryman would send out agent.
who would make such wild and exorbi
r tant CLAIMS, and we have no assurance
D that any of the sorts are true TO name
t Country Gentleman.