Show J wool GROWING the following on the subject of sheep and wool wooi is from the pen ot of 2 mr J S pettibone J of dian Blan manchester chester vermont written to a michigan wool grower and which appears appear sn n a late number of the country gentleman it la now forty years sinco since T purchased 20 merino eino iino ewes in waterton ct of the humphrey importation or their descendants R skinner former governor Goyer nor of this state purchased 80 ewes wes at the same sarce time in 1820 1 I purchased of gov skinner his whole flock of ew evv a increasing my luy flock of merinos marinos to over in 1849 J was reque requested Aed oed by the editor of the albany bany bany cui Cu livator to answer the following questions what is the most pr fi able course of farming in your section ot odthe the country and what is the cost of producing a pound of merino alerino wool I 1 endeavored to answer the questions my aly ansa anba ans a published in he file april number ot that paper page pase ilo iio this article was commented upon by candid aria arla arif acl til writers in the same vol pages 10 and now by forty years experience on the farm on which I 1 was boronow born now old I 1 am satisfied satis patis fied wool growers in general do not realize the importance of adopting a system an oney one of c instant improvement I 1 know the figures of the weight of my fleeces look large laige the price when sold will be the ot of their quality I 1 hever never put the tags into the fleeces I 1 seldom tag my breed ing ewes they seldom become bithy filthy when kept well I 1 do not adopt the practice ot of el shearing learing in the dirt I 1 have done so to try the tha experiment those 20 pound fleeces operate alb as a fraud upon the inexperienced I 1 sheared one buck washed that is 19 put into ehe the water the same ceremony performed as on theother he was a very greasy sheep si sired redby by an atwood buck of the extra greasy trait his neece fleece weighed 14 pounds I 1 had another another buck sired aired by an atwood buck sheared unwashed weight but pounds there was no doubt a quarter more wool on the 13 ibs lbs unwashed than on the isi lbs iba wished these extra greasy are generally abort cannot endure the cold and flied blied generally short lived an extra greasy wrinkled buck I 1 would not breed from to get a heavy fleece of wool the staple must roust he be long iong and thick and the whole body covered in the article to which I 1 have alluded I 1 have ha ve given my mode ot improvement any errors I 1 hava have adopted yon yoi will please correct and all improvement that you can suggest would be ba received by me as a great favor tha hills bills and valleys of vermo yermo 1 and new are the places for proff profi profitable fable lable sheep bs husbandry andry sweet and arid abundant feed on our hills bills low priced in consequence of being remote from home with fertile flats and interval meadows on oar our rivers and creeks kept fertile by annual overflowing 11 good water 1 issuing Is sAing from the hills can with little expense be conveyed to the sheep barns where the shepp sheep may be seen in the extreme cod of winter lying che chewing sving the cud as under a cool shade in summer by frequent littering uttering the thil sheep are kept clean aid alid warm the wool Is hot not injured by storms and sometimes keeps kee sup up its Us regular growth grow thas thab aa in ir the fall fali f all ali or bummer summer I 1 fear I 1 have too much trespassed upon your time but my love iove for sheep is such that I 1 do not know when to stop when I 1 begin to talk taik on wool wooi growing I 1 chave have visited spittal good flocks of sheep in new hampshire the shakers at lebanon or enfield had some years ago some good sheep the bartlett harriett famili good wool the church fam ily fly ver ier very lorig long wol wo woi 1 too coarse and dry we must visit flocks other than our own jovn ie it we wish to improve our flocks transplanting IN IT I T TE tile NIGHT A friend in chose e powers of observation we have confidence fidel fidei fi ace and wh is an exact experimenter in forM forn sus sug that last spring and summer he made the following cx ex ants he transplanted ten arry trees while in blossom commencing com merlc meric at four in the afternoon and transplanting pa 1 one each hour until one in the morning 9 those transplanted during daylight shed their blossoms producing little or no druif while those planted during the darker portions maintained their conditions fully ile he did the eanie ramp with ten divari pear trees after the fruit was one opp third grown those transplanted I 1 during the day shed heir their fruit those fians pla pia nied atea during the night perfected their crop and showed no injury from having been beeh removed with each of these thebe he removed some earth with the roots I 1 we are well aware that thai when planta plan pian are anci arci dently frozen dozen in green houes hou es it is 13 customary to render the house dark before applying cold water to thaw them ami awl that when this is not riot observed they are injured jared in while if jr entire darkness be secured darina the operation many of them are saved bat the experiment peri ment of our friend beenu seems to have but little analogy to this fact and it is eu entirely new to us lis we ive lve shall hill be glad to receive information on this his subject from our readers and hope that numerous kinared experiment experiments will bs be made made during dur I 1 rg the coming season working worling work worl ing far mer cier az GERMAN METHOD or curing CORING TOBACCO A method ftc f curing tobacco atter it is dried J generally practiced by the farmers in ger many consists in forming around a round stack of bf the same turning the point fintor or thin part of or the leaves or blades as muchas much as possible outside and the thick er or part to the inside of the stack the idea is to warm the tobacco by its own 0 n sweat containing moister killing or rather curing the greeness green gree hess mess of the veins inthe in the blades and by a certain sweat to improve the flavor and appearance of the article 1 when warm enough in the middle or the warmest warm est eat part of the stack to berr ber a hand inside with I 1 out discomfort of heat beat it should be talen taken apart anu nd that part of the stack not warmed up to the point of sweat be put in tle lle the tie middle middie j for a like cure care curs must be taken not to burn it black or like ash aeh bained manure to which purpose it should be frequently examined when the above point of curing I 1 is obtained 1 it may be b laid out thinly to cool off 1 arid and dry after which it can be put imo info ino wha ever shape for market in bales casks hog hogs heads by the above process the farmers in in germany manage to cure tobacco and sell when very successful srul the same at prices often equalling the best sort raised in lit this country the stack named must be indoors in doors on a good plank floor and accessible to very i little air while in stack 11 1 MOWING LANDS timothy is a pasture grass that everybody knows 4 knows the tite trow irow drowsing browsing sing herd he rd will wil I 1 soon rid afield a field of it except in the hedge hodve rows where they annot cannot crop close the reason of this is not riot because the root is somewhat bulbous for we cannot understand der stand why that should affect it one way or another ano but the fact ia is that the dormant buds at the crown of the root or the base of the he stem need the influence of some foliage t cause them to start the root alone is i very likely to be unable to produce al lother another vigorous I 1 shoot and so it dies or is is greatly injured ganoot gu toot Noot thus itis it ts t is s he the t very ery worst policy to let cattle cattie of ai at y kind bosely cosely feed down timo hy by meadows a at t any time of tho the vear year and particular particularly in spring biring where the full vigor of the root shou should I 1 go to the unimpeded developement elopement dev of the plant timothy appears to receive more of a shock from cutting than almost any other common grasses gra ses and almost uniformly makes a poor aftermath A dressing of manure upon timothy bowin bowings s after haying baying seems to counteract this evil not only a good aftermath of timo timothy illy will be secured but ail all a other grass grassis grasses ts so far as we know are more ben fitted by mai mar turing at this season beason than any other am agriculturist |