The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-05-19
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

the following hints on weaving lambs
About ninety days is proper time fol
the lambs to run with their mother, and
when flock is large enough to justify a
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 injnri-
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 a
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.
aged with ease. But be sure to give
them the advantage of good fresh feed,
80 soon as they have forgotten their
mother; don't let them K Sc 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.
veniently and proftably held on one
range, and smaller numbers are better
But in our opinion this is mach better
for our State, the smaller the flock the
more people we will have, and with PEG
pie come the other advantages Of civilza
ton over the frontier.
How AND WHERE TO FEED STOCK
I. B. Miner writes from Linden, n. J.
10 the Rural Nea0 Yorker: In decidins
where you will feed your cows on greer
crops, an eye should be directed to tn,
manure heap, as this is very importa1
matter. The probability is, that every
COW that is pastured drops ten cents
worth of manure in the field daily, tn,
most of which evaporates into the atmos
phere. Now, if you can secure tina
amount of manure from each COW b,
soiling, you at once pay the expenses o
cutting your crops, and feeding you
COWS in this way, and even more thai
that, as twelve COWS may be fed, and at
tended daily, by the labor of a hanC
half day, worth generally not over fit,
cents. The most comfortable way 70
the COWS, is to put them into yard ad
joining the barn, where there is a goo1
shade, and feed them from racks adjoin
ing the fence where load of feed can b
drawn alongside, and pitched directl
into the racks. Once day the manur
should be gathered into wheelbarro,
and taken to the dung heap whic
should be kept well covered with litter
In stormy weather the COWS should b
stabbed, and there fed. Or they may b
fed in the stable altogether, and turne
out into the yard for exercise after eat
ing their feed. In no case can farme
make mistake by having an acre O
more of fodder corn ready to be cut il
September and October, when the night
are long and the cows are yarded, as the
require some kind of fodder at that sea
son, unless they be kept in their pastur
all the time; and even then, if short,
little green corn would be beneficial t
them.
PEACH DISEASE IN THE SorTTH
correspondent of Our Home Journal write
OF mysterious disease which attacks tn
peach tree in the South. As the loves
temperature is seldom more than five de
grees below freezing point in the affecte
regions, the disease can not result from
cold. he says: Many of the trees ar
dead, root and branch. Some are dea,
down to the roots, from which a fe,
suckers are springing up, from each @
which l mean to train up one TO see wha
1t will do. The trees that are not dea,
have sickly and wilted look-scarcel
any leaves and perhaps half dozel
peaches to the tree. My orchard is o,
the warm southern slope of a sandy ridg
or tongue of high land, projecting int
the salt marsh, with water on both side,
and sheltered on the north by heay
growth of live oak and magnolia. Th
sap flows early, but have never know,
the fruit germs killed by frost. An,
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