The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

following hints on weaving lambs:
About ninety days is a proper time for
the lambs to run with their mother, and
when a flock is large enough to justify a
driver of the flock, the lambs that are
dropped the first three weeks car 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 and injuri-
GUS practice of not weaving, or rather
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 yer with their mothers.
They will be more %contented, and by
putting in with them a few dry ewes,
will soon learn to herd and car be man.
aged with ease. But be sure to give
them the advantage of good fresh feed,
SO soon as they have forgotten their
mother; don't let them Lose 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 a very low
price per acre, or that large areas can be
leased as in Australia, it is useless in
Colorado to expect to W and control,
in n 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 a be con-
veniently and p~roftably held on one
range, and smaller numbers are better.
But in our opinion this is much better
for our State, the smaller the flock the
more people we will have, and with peo-
pie come the other advantages of civiliza-
ton wei the frontier.
How AND WHERE TO FEED STOCK
T. B. Miner writes from Linden, n. j.,
to the Rural New Yorker: In deciding
where you will feed your COWS IN green
crops, an eye should be directed to the
manure heap, as this is a very important
matter. The probability is, that every
COW that is pastured drops ten cents
worth of manure in the field daily, the
most of which evaporates into the atmos
phere. Now, if you can secure thai
amount of manure from each cow by
soiling, you at once pay the expenses o
cutting your crops, and feeding YOU
COWS in this way, and even more thar
that, as twelve COWS may be fed, and at
tended daily, by the labor of a hant
half a day, worth generally not over fit,
cents. The most comfortable way TO
the COWS, is to put them into a yard ad
Joining the barn, where there is a gooC
shade, and feed them from racks adjoin
ing the fence where a load of feed car b
drawn alongside, and pitched direct,
into the racks. Once a day the manur
should be gathered into a w~heelbarroJ
and taken to the dung heap, whicI
should be kept we'll covered with litter
In stormy weather the cow should b
stabbed, and there fed. Or they may b
fed in the stable altogether, and turDe,
out into the yard for exercise after eat
ing their feed. In no case Can a farme
make a mistake by having an acre 0
more of fodder corr ready to be cut i
September and October, when the night
are long and the COWS are yarded, as the
require some kind of fodder at that ses
son, unless they be kept in their pastur
all the time; and even then, if short,
little green corn would be beneficial
them.
PEACH DISEASE IN THE SOUTH.
correspondent of Our Home Journal write
s of a mysterious disease which attacks th
4 peach tree in the South. AS the loves
temperature is seldom more than five d
grees below freezing point in the afecte
regions, the disease can not result frol
cold. He says: MANY of the trees a
dead, root and branch. Some are des
down to the roots, from which a fe
suckers are ~springing up, from each
e which I'mean to train upone to see VIII
Il it will do. The trees that are not dea
have a sickly and wilted look-scarcel
= any leaves and perhaps half a doze
peaches to the tree. My orchard is {
e the warm southern slope of a sandy rid
or tongue of high land, projecting in
the salt marsh, with water on both side
s and sheltered on the north by a hea1
Il growth of live oak and magnolia. TT
u sap flows early, but I have never know
). the fruit germs killed by frost. Al
this season, as I have said, two-thirds
my trees have exhibited no signs of Ii
If at any time, and now stand leafess al
D. saple ST."
Household Helps.
BAKING POWDER CAKE.-White
d. one egg; one cup of white sugar; OIL
t. half cup of sweet milk one and Oh