The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-10
FARM AND FERESIDE.

FARM AND F1REsIDE.
WEAVING LAMBs.-In a series of
articles on Sheep Husbandry, published
lately in the Colorado Farmer, We find
the following hints on weaving lambs:
About ninety days is proper time for
the lambs to run with their mother, and
when a flock is large enough to justify
driver of the flock, the lambs that are
dropped the first three weeks can be put
in one flock, and the weaving can be
done at two times without any injury to
the younger lambs. Some fock-masters
have adopted the erroneous and injuri-
Gus practice Of not weaving, or rather
depending upon the mother to wean the
lamb. This practice will not hurt the
lamb, but will keep the mother poor,
and she will be likely to fail to have
lamb the coming season, or if she does
she will be so weak that great risk will
be run in wintering her. The better
plan is to wean the lamb at about three |
months of age, and if any are small {
then give them extra attention in the
fall and early winter, and little risk will
be run in wintering them. We have al
ways found it best to wean our lambs On
the range they have been in the habit |
of grazing over with their mothers |
They will be more contented, and by
putting in with them a few dry ewes,
will soon learn to herd and can be man
| p,,+ ha 10 piyo
them the advantage of good fresh feed,
SO soon as they have forgotten their
mother; don't let them lcse their lambs
flesh, and there will be no difficulty in
wintering them. Lambs should be kept
separate from the old sheep, and in win
ter, especially in cold nights, should not
be kept in too large punches; temporary
division should be made in their corrals
to prevent crowding and piling, the
chief cause of the loss of lambs in cold
weather, and this can be prevented by
the means we have suggested.
Another question and an important
one presents itself for the consideration
of sheep men who contemplate entering
this business extensively. Unless the
General Government shall legislate SO
that large tracts ofour waste and barren
lands can be purchased at very low
price per acre, or that large areas can be
leased as in Australia, it is useless in
Colorado to expect to own and control,
in one place, great bands of sheep, as
are held in New Mexico on the land
! grants of that Territory. Five thousand
. sheep are about as many as can be con-
J, veniently and proftably held on one
g range, and smaller numbers are better.
r But in our opinion this is much better
for our State, the smaller the flock the
/ more people we will have, and with peo-
y pie come the other advantages of civiliza-
:. ton over the frontier.
/. How AND WHERE TO FEED STOCK
e 7. B. Miner writes from Linden, N. J..
q to the Rural Ney Yorker: In deciding
~ where you will feed your COWS on greer
"a crops, an eye should be directed to the
al manure heap, as this is very importa1
matter. The probability is, that every
W. COW that is pastured drops ten cents
lc NOIlu Va ulC Ill SuC ACIO odIly, lh'
g, most of which evaporates into the atmos
es phere. Now, if you can secure tina
LII amount of manure from each COW b,
y soiling, you at once pay the expenses o
ar cutting your crops, and feeding you
d cows in this way, and even more thai
th that, as twelve COWS may be fed, and at
en- tended daily, by the labor of ham
an half day, worth generally not over fft
ne cents The most comfortable way fo
: the COWS, is to put them into yard ao
IN m joining the barn, where there is a goo
shade, and feed them from racks adjoir
va ing the fence where load of feed can b
M. drawn alongside, and pitched directl
lg, into the racks. Once day the manur
&C. should be gathered into a wheelbarro,
and taken to the dung heap, whic
os should be kept we'll covered with lite
zee In stormy weather the cows should /
" stabbed, and there fed. Or they may h
=. fed in the stable altogether, and turne
N. out into the yard for exercise after ea
on ing their feed. In no case can farme
he make a mistake by having an acre {
he more Of fodder corn ready to be cut i
a September and October, when the nigh
are long and the cows are yarded, as the
al require some kind of fodder at that SCI
o,u son, unless they be kept in their pastul
hd all the time and even then, if short,
little green corn would be beneficial |
i+b them.
os- PEACH DISEASE IN THE SOUTH
correspondent of Our Home Journal writ
his of mysterious disease which attacks tt
zen peach tree in the South. AS the lowe
TO temperature is seldom more than five d
., grees below freezing point in the affectt
ra regions, the disease can not result fro
inc cold. He says: Many of the trees a
by dead, root and branch. Some are de:
down to the roots, from which a fe
led suckers are springing up, from each
the which I mean to train up one to see VIII
Oh it will do. The trees that are not de.
!, ,.+ have sickly and wilted look-scarce
:, in any leaves and perhaps half doz
peaches to the tree. My orchard is
the the warm southern slope of sandy rid
or tongue of high land, projecting in
ed. the salt marsh, with water on both sid,
ces and sheltered ON the north by hea,
sfas al growth of live oak and magnolia. t
d. sap flows early, but have never know
.ces the fruit germs killed by frost. Al
,on. this season, as have said, two thirds
VIC my trees have exhibited no signs of Ii
liar at any time, and now stand leahess 81
Co sapless."
,an-
H0xsehOI6 Helps.
pril BAKING POWDER CAKE-Whlte
ad- one egg; one cup of white sugar; or
est half cup of sweet milk; one and or