The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-05
AGRICULTURE.

hULES FOX THE tARE OF Sl!EEP.--
The following good rules for the care
of sheep We find floating round with
out credit. The writer evidently un-
derstands how to tako care of sheep.
and every farmer who keeps shccp-as
every farmer should, at least few
ought to paste these simple rules upon
his stable door, that himself and hands
may see them often, and adhere to them
strictly: Keep the sheep dry under
loot with litter--iS even more necessary
than roofing them. Never let them
stand or lie in mud or snow. Take up
lamb bucks early in summer. and keep
them up until December, when they
may be turned out. Remove tho lower
bars as the sheep enter or leave II yard,
thus avoiding broken limbs. Count
the greatest of care, and use the small
lest quantity first. If a owe looscs Il
lamb, milk daily II few days and mix II
little alum with her salt. Let no hogs
eat with sheep. In wcaning lamp, use
Il little mill feed. Never frightcn sheep
If you can avoid it. Sow rye for weak
ones in cold weather. In tho fall sep
aratc the weak, thin or sick from the
strong, and give extra care. If one is
hurt catch him ut once; wash the
wound; If in fly time apply spirits Of
turpcntinc daily; always wash with
something healing. Splinter broken
limbs tightly; loosening as the limbs
swclls. Keep Il number Of good bells
on them. Don't let them spoil wool
with burrs. Cut tag locks in early
spring. For scours give pulverizcd
alum in wheat bran. Prevent by tax
ing care in changing dry for green feed.
If lame, examine feet, clean out hoofS {;
pare hoof, If unsound, apply tobac-
co boiled with blue vitrol, in Il little
water. II the weather Is not too cold,
shear at once sheep beginning to shed.
and carefully save pclts of those that
die. Have some good book on sheep to
refer to. 1t will put money in thy
purse.
WHERE DOES DEW CONE FRoM.-The
general belief is that the soil obtains
water from the air at night by absorp.
ton and condensation to such an extent
as to be of the utmost agricultural
value, and that in times of drought
this moisture of the air invigorates
and sustains plants which otherwise
would perish. The observations Of
Professor Stockbridgc show the soil :,
from May to November, both 1T the
surface and five inches deep, to bc
warmer than the air it is hardly posi-
bic that the moisture on the surface in
the morning was deposited from the
air, a more reasonable conclusion Is
that the vapor which rises from the
surface Is condensed as it comes in con-
tact with the collier air. The phcnOm-
cnOn Of sO-callcu "ucw rall' is usually
attributed to the supposed fact that soil
AMI plants are colder than the air at
night, and SO conlcnsc its moisture in
the ,orm of dew" The "dcw" on the
icc-pitchcr is the common illustration
to prove the theory; but rs we have
seen, the conditions in this case are the
reverse OF those with soil and plant,
which are both warmer than the air at
night, while the ice. pitcher is colder.
Further Investigations were made IN
the study of this question. a tin box,
without top or bottom, was filled with
soil and placed in growing grass: the
next morning the grass was loaded
with dew, but not a trace appeared on
the box, and the temperature of the
soil was 0G degrees, and OF the air GO
degrees. This experiment was repeat
cd many times with the same results.
Then loose tin cover was placed on
the box; in the morning the top of the
cover was dry, but the under side was
"Jhickly studded with drops of water"
dew.
WARTS ON CATrLE.-AnOiut .ho wart
three times with clean fresh hogs lard,
about two days between times. l have
had warts on my horscs-blecding
warts Of large size, rattling warts and
seed warts, to the number of one hun
dred on one horses head. Ihavc never
been able to find the warts Tor the third
application of the lard. All disappear
after the second application. have
sent this prescription to several agri-
cultural nnnrrS hOninm ii MOuld be of