The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-06

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! every worm it touches. Be sure and
touch every worm.-.- Western Rural.
GREEN CROPS FOR MANURE.
At meeting of the western New York
farmers club president Quinby said he
had plowed under good clover crops, and
generally got good wheat crops following,
but had come to the conclusion that it is
better TO cut the clover and feed to
stock, and pillow under the roots. By re-
turning manure made by stock 10 the
land, and turning under the roots, he
generally got as good crops as when he
turned under the whole plant. Once
had a twelve-acre piece of sandy, gravelly
loan, which he sOwed to wheat, and only
reaped seven bushels to the acre. The
land was full of red root. The next
spring he plowed the field and sowed it
to corn, about two and half bushels of
seed to the acre. When the corn was
four to five feet high, and about to- tassel,
he turned it under and sOwed to- wheat
again. The crop yielded twenty-four
bushels to the acre. The corn seemed to
renovate the soil, and that field bore
good crops thereafter. Has plowed under
buckwheat and has found mechanical ef-
fects good, on stiff soil, but did not think
it afforded much manure. At the same
meeting, Mr.. Allis said that failure from
the use of corn and buckwheat resulted
from not blowing under long enough be-
forehand for the green crops to rot. They
should be plOwed under several weeks
before seeding. Buckwheat is often
turned in when killed by frost, and does
little good. A neighbor sOwed corn,
plOwed it under, and sOwed wheat i'm
mediately, and the wheat was a failure.
Several members said that clover as a
green crop did best on heavy soils, and
failed on coarse sand.
TIRE WAY TO JUDGE or WOOL ON A
LIVE SHEEP.
The finest and softest wool is always
found on the shoulders of a sheep. But
not one person in ten thousand is aware |
of this fact. Let us watch an expert |
when he is about to pass Judgment on a |
sheep concerning the value of the animal |
for producing wool, and it will be seen
that he always looks at the shoulders |
first A writer of extensive experience
in rearing fne-wOOled sheep and In hand |
ling wool communicates the following
suggestions for selecting a goOd-wOOled
sheep: "Always assuming that the
wool to be inspected is really a fine wool,
we first examine the shoulders at the
part where the finest and best wool is
usually found. This we take as the
standard, and compare it with the wool
from the ribs, the thigh, the rHmp and
the shoulder-parts, and the nearer the
wool from the various portions of the
animal approaches the standard the bet
ter. First we scrutinize the fneness,
and if the result is satisfactory we pro-
nounce the fleece, in respect Of fineness,
very even Next we inquire into the
length of the staple, and if we find that
the wool ON the ribs, thigh and back APP
proximate reasonably in length to our
standard we again declare the sheep, as
regards length of staple, true and even.
We next desire to satisfy ourselves Of
the density of the fleece, and we do this
by closing the hand upon portion Of
the rump, and Of the lOin wool, the fleece
at these points being usually the thin
nest, and most faulty, and if this again
gives satisfaction, we signify the fact by
designating the wool even as respects
density. Now to summarize these sep
arate examinations. If you find the
fleece Of nearly equal ineness from the
shoulder to the thigh, of nearly equal
length on shoulder, rib, thigh and back,
and density on shoulder and across the
loins, you conclude that it is a perfect
sheep for producing valuable wool. p
Selecting sheep for valuable feeders is
quite another thing. Trade Journal.