Show WEEDING POTATOES WITH SHEEP it may not be known to farmers in general that it ia is a common practice in some of the potato growing districts to turn a flock of sheep into the potato field for the purpose of eating down the weeds the sheep will not to touch ucha a potato vine this pasturing with sheep Is lavery very advantageous when the crop is a late planted one BO so that the hoeing cannot be completed until the haying or harvesting harvey t ing is finished at the growing season it la Is the farmers aim to keep kee p down the grass and weeds so that they may mar be covered by the cultivator an and hoe when these are used pasturing with sheep will attain this object early planted crops the cultivation of w which is completed in the early p part ar t of summer frequently becomes grassy and weedy before the time of digging when tha the size of the tops precludes cultivation in this stage the sheep are economical beeders we eders it ia Is hardly necessary to mention that the feed thus given to the sheep makes a double profit inasmuch as it costs absolutely nothing while labor is saved and weeds prevented from seeding farm and fireside |