The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
sheep M Improyers or Land.

sheep Rs Improyers OF Land.
Not onlyis it in the wool and mutton
which they furnish is the production of
sheep to be valued, but otherwise in the
aid they furnish in ~fertilizing the soil
upon which they tread. This is made
manifest in the able papers prepared by
MIR. John l.. Hayes, Secretary of the
National Wool Manufacturers Associa-
tion, and published by order of Congress.
He says sheep are the only animals
which do not exhaust the land upon
which they feed. They, on the contra
ry, permanently improve it. Horned
cattle, especially COWS in milk. by con-
tinued grazing, ultimately exhaust the
pastures of their phosphates. In Eng
land the pastures of the county of Ches.
ter, famous as a cheese district, are Kept
up only by the constant use of bone
dust. Sheep on the other hand, through
the peculiar fertilizing power Of their
manure and the facility with which il is
distributed, are found to be the most
economical and certain means Of con
stantly renewing the productiveness Of
the land. By The combination of sheep
h%usbandry with wheat. culture, lands in
England, which, in the times of Eliza.
beth, produced, on an average, six and
a-half bushels of vheatper acre, produce
now over thirty bushels. For these
reasons, the recent practical writers in
the journals Of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England pronounce that,
while there is no profit in growing
sheep in England simply for their NUT
ton and wool, sheep husbandry lie still
an indispensable necessity, as the sole
mean of keeping up the land.
Experience in the United States leads
to similar conclusions. MIR. Stilson, Of
Wisconsin, by keeping sheep, is able to
raise his twenty-four bushels Of wheat
to the acre, while the average yield. Of
wheat in Wisconsin is but Ten bushels.
There are GASES in Vermont where sheep
farmers avebeen compelled to abandon
one farm after another as they became
too fertile for profitable sheep growing
Mr.. George Gsddes, whom Horace
Greeley used to regard as the highest
authority for agricultural matters in the
State oflNew York, and who has raised
sheep for many years nfconnsetion with
wheat, says that with sheep to the
acre of cultivated land pasture and
meadows, he raises more bushels OF
grain, on the average, than he did when
he had mo- sheepeto manufactures his
coarse forage into manure, and to enrich
his pastures to prepare them for the
grain crop; that the land is constantly
improving, and the crop increasing in
quantity; and that, while producing
crops on less acres and at less than he
did before he kept sheep, he has, in
addition, the wool and the mutton pro-
duced by the sheep. -t
Celery.
Peter Henderson says in Gardening
for Profit Il know of no vegetable on
the cultivation of which there is so much
useless labor expended with such unsat-
~isfactory results as celery But Mr..
Henderson gives a method which is at.
once so simple and practical that no one
need fail. I had never seen celery
growing when 1 read Gardening for
Profit but carefully observing Mr..
Henderson's rules l succeeded in OBJ
tanning celery that took the premium Of
our late State fair. Iplanted the seed
in the open ground as soon as the soil
was dry enough to work well, and began
to cultivate as soon as the plants could
be seen, keeping tho ground loose and
free from weeds. Twice, before trans.
planting, I sheared the tops OF the plants
off to induce a stalky growth, and about
the twentieth of June they were ready
for transplanting, which was done, not
in trenches, as most writer's direct, but
on the level surface, in rows about three
and a.half feet apart. Cultivate often
and keep the ground loose and free from
weeds, and about the middle Of August
the process Of 'earthing up should be-
gin; the soil should be drawn up to the
plants with enough to keep the leaves
upright, and when cool weather comes
the blanohing may be finished by dig
ging the soil from between the rows and
banking up to the tops OF the plants on
each side OF the row. The soil should
be moist and well MANFRED. aaiaaoa
Budding.
Budding fruit.trees is not as difficult
as grating, but like the latter IL must
be understood just how IL is TO be done,
though this is easy 20 do bygiying 10
little attention. To cut 4 bud from The
parent branch il should take about an
inch and a,halt Of the bark and wool,
the bud being about in the center; and