Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-12

times in 10 l believe can raise one
apiece-snd by breeding from a buck
that was himself a twin, often raise more
lambs than l have sheep; now put the
lambs at only Is, if the buck be well
Bred. and food plenty and good, they
will bring $3.50, or total of $3I;5o ;
the wool Is worth at lbs apiece SIG
50, q have cut 10 pounds apiece from
Southdowns) giving the farmer from
his fifteen lambs and the wool s54.
Now, 25 acres in wheat cost s56.5O and
that money expended in sheep clears
the 90 sheep for the farmer except -.
But now YOUR reader says, chow about
the balance made on the wheat-the
Inference between $3.50 and the net
proceeds Of the wheat $l57.25, which is
Sl0O.75? :.
First. the farmer has So dollars in his
90 ewes les. 2, or SO, leaving salts
to be made up in some other way. The
manure OF % sheep is worth, if they are
penned at night as they should be, y
dollars in year. Let farmer try 1t
and see if this is not so, independent OF
the fact that it is . protection from
dogs.
Does any one believe that farmer
can not employ the horses and hands
needed upon his farm to put in this
wheat and save it so as to make more
than Salts! But the question is how
TO make it. Let him put in wheat
enough for bread, manuring some four
or FIVE acres as well as possible, then
prepare for planting more corn the next
sprine-not to sell at 40 cts. bushel,
but 10 feed away-putting his time and
labor Oh the corn land, subsoiling 1T,
with mole turning up
the bottom soil upon the top soil-but
this would hot be Objectionable If 1t
were plowed the summer before the
planting of the corn, flushed again IN
the fall and replowed in the spring be,
tore planting. Then let him try and
get pasture, 1--WE see very little in Jet
ferson) by sowing some grass that will
make it-not Timothy, which is the
poorest grass in the world for the pnr-
pose In other portions Of the Valley
that are enriching the farmers who live
there by the keeping of sheep and cat
tie, and the raising of corn and grass,
thrifty farmers never SOW Timothy for
pasture nor do they depend on clover.
Yet here not one in twenty ever thinks
of sowing anything else.
The grasses which they SOW are varl-
Gus and produce very early and late pas
lures. They are, besides, grasses not
liable TO suffer from hard winters and
dry weather as the little Dubious root OF
the Timothy does, and they produce a
hay infinitely better for sheep and cattle
than Timothy. Let the farmer be con-
tent to clear more than halt the SlOO.72
on the % ewes and lei the rest 60 in
preparation for the next years corn crop
and grass lots, and when that year
comes he will find that he has his land
in snch condition that he can keep 81
sheep, where % were enough before,
and that instead of having to depend on
poor pastures and stock so thin that
they have to be prepared for sale, they
will be always ready for the buyer-a
very important item in the farmers suc'
cess.
j A[r. Editor it does rot do to raise
/ wheat straw for manure, and any one OF
our farmers who tries it will find that
his field that is to go in corn will be
more improved by blowing deep ant.
subsuilng in August, narrowing it ii
needul to put it i'll good order, replow-
ing iii the fall and then giving all need,
full preparation in the spring, than by
having put upon its poor spots the
straw of % acres in manure, and that
bis return from the field is greater.
He would find ants and worms not
disturbing his Young corn and rerlant-
ING would be thing OF the past. The
grasses he would SOW would be tentold
more apt to take on tina; field than any
other, the land being much more capa.
bic of retaining moisture. But in order
TO compete with order sections where
this system, more or less, prevails, Our
farmers must believe in the advantage
of blood in his stock their appearance
bearing strongly upon the prcc, indie
pendent of the fact that well-bred eve
will make mutton by the time the milk
dries up after taking away her lamb,
which can't be done with common
sheep. If any of your readers would
try this and want the plan Of a sub-soil
pillow, can suggest a pattern, which l
have used, and which can be made by
any farmer and blacksmith at slight
cost.
hope some of the Changers will con-
slider the need of change iii the sys-
tenn here aud prove the advantage OF
the change by actual experiment. Our
sheep and cattle certainly ought to
reach Baltimore and Philadelphia as
eheaply as stock several hundred miles
further away and if they be as good in
blood and flesh they will bring as remu-
nerative prices.
TRY 1T.
Mr.. Editor-For the information OF
those who on last Saturday at Summit
Point expressed wish to know what
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