| Show or cultural HEAVY FLEECES the new york tr it tt unc une ok of a recent date says the friends of the heavy merino flee ees es contend that their f favorite shed sheep P produce a greater fleece omo ool of wool wooi in proportion to the size of carcass than any other class of sheep but as it is not with the weight of fleece but with the weight of wool we have to do we would reply by saying that the rs and and their crosses the cotswold Cots wold and their grosses crosses crosses will yield when properly kept from se seven en to eight pounds of elean clean elean clean brook washed wool which in scouring for manufacturing purposes will not shrink more than thirty per cent and in many instances not over twenty five per ter cent from these fleeces we should hav have efrom drom four and a half to six pounds of wool ready for the cards while it would be a very rare case indeed for any of those cheavy merino fleeces to reach four and a half pounds many not three pounds if the grower of long wool had labored as to produce a good fleece as the grower of of merino has labored to produce a heavy one their relative merits would not now be a question of controversy the producers of the heavy fleeces never forget to feed abundantly da but the producers of the long wool j do 0 not appear always to realize that the constitution of wool requires the best elements of food to produce it i wool is an excrescence and is composed to a great extent of the very best elements which constitute the muscle bone bono bonnand and sinew of the animal and consequently those articles of diet which contain the most of these properties produce the most wool and of the best quality with the least possible amount of shrinkage but the mistake which the farmer makes with regard to wool is equally one in the production pro dutOn of mutton the sheep when on good pastures build an excellent staple but when taken up in the fall on account of short or inferior feed it requires the whole to supply the wear and tear of its own muscles consequently there is a cessation in the grow growth growther thor or it is so interfered with that the staple is weak at this particular point which seriously injures its value thus by neglecting to supply sufficient food the farmer loses his batand eat fat and injures his wool wee ve urge these ats falts upon the consideration of all reeder sheep tim THE massachusetts agricultural club has unanimously agreed upon the following as the twelve best varieties of pears first six the Bart bartlett barolat lAt louise bonne d de k jersey ste beurre bearre dan dAu danjou jou sheldon and beekel beckel second s six x the onondaga 11 swans orang orange e me merriam ariam doyenne dorenne bassock Bos sock vicar of winkfield paradise dAut omni omri and fultor 1 lyte IHK caterpillar PEST JN TIN rev NEV 1 1 v LAND 14 peaking speaking of this subject ml nd the culpan culpable carelessness owners f f uit trees conc concerning ernin C the destruction if f ve xe ater pier tho the tho the I 1 wei new enol Engl englart anft I 1 says f 1 we wish there were a law fixings daliy penalty upon affy any person upon whole premises ses a w dozen nests could be found in the month of july and that it was made imperative upon the selectmen or assessors anchors of ever every y town to see that the baw ia was enforced every farmer knows that the destruction caus edby caterpillars is amerious annoyance and evil to the community and yet there are some alas too many who take little 6 ho no pains ans to do their duty in this particular ft it is a mistake to say that they have haye do cio time to destroy them they have all the time there is for any of us and they cannot afford to incur the cost of raising trees and then suffer them to die before their time through the agency of caterpillars the thing ought to bo be a matter of duty and conscience some persons complain of the encroachments encroach ments of a neighbors dog or cattle and very justly y t too 00 perhaps while they allda their wild cherry erry crry trees to be covered with caterpillars enough to destroy half the dee dec decharms hards in the land consistency is a jewel 11 besu we gestro tto sueh such a story about demote a mote and a team beam in the eye A correspondent of the same paper says i why do not horticulturists insist upon the passage of a law obliging every ever landowner land owner to extirpate from the fruit and other trees growing upon his land that most pest the caterpillar last year nond none were allowed to nature arturd upon my trees and yet I 1 have jials 11 y year dest destroyed royed roved over nests this evening a stroll of a mile around the outskirts of the city revealed the origin of these pests upon my tree along the roadside in unoccupied lots loti upon every cherry apple and occasionally upon other trees the webs could be counted by the hundred each of these webs contains about worms at the present rate of increase the time will very soon com come ewhen when we must elther cither der the apple to the worms or by some stringent law jaw compel every man to divest the trees upon his land of these loathsome and destructive pests THE tim CROPS ON NS route EOUTE A correspondent of the prairie barme farmer r who was waa with sherman and looked at the carolinas with an agricultural eye so to s speak P eak writes vr ites since starting out on this march I 1 have been appointed topographical engineer and it is a part of my business to visit every house to obtain information of any kind more particularly relating ani ank to t the e roads I 1 ride at the head of the column and thus have opportunities to talk with the people about other matters before the troops come up and as you might expect I 1 ask them all ail manner mauner of questions Yankee fashion 1 particularly about sugar cane hum almost every planter raises one or the other especially since the war commenced I 1 have visited every house on our route and made very many inquiries inq uries relative to crops etc and I 1 find the production about as follows corn from five to eight bushels per acre an average of five bushels is considered a good crop wheat tin ain uncertain certain but everything favorable from three to five bushels bus liels per acre but few attempt to raise it oats do best of the small grains pr producing od uc ing in good land in favorable sea seasons s 0 ns fro from m twelve to fifteen bushels rice elee Is the tha main crop near neap the coast cotton grows from to pounds to the acre and takes ds the precedence of all other crops except corn there is no grass at all oll no tame girss grass or hay raised none wild except viro vire wire grass that nothing can eat everywhere the people strip the leavestrom leaves from the corn and save it for fodder and this makes all the food or rough feed therel therea th ereis to be had sugar cane and aud sorghum produce at the rate of 25 to 35 gallons per acre some here raised as high as 40 gallons ty allons by careful culture and an and a one man told me that he had on one occasion raised as high as 50 gallons from froin an acre of good land these are the facts relative to the above named crops as I 1 obtained them from the mouths of all that I 1 en enquired aired I 1 of from georgia all through houth south carolina and so far into north Caro carolina ilila lixia no wonder the land is all pine timbered except rice marshes oil on the coast and swamps in the interior and nine tenths of these have nothing but pine timber some portions of the country have a clay soil and a subsoil this whis is beeter better than that which is all sand hs as about abma three fourths of or the land is |
