Show SHEEP IN THE ORCHARD one farmer who thinks they give him good crops of applee I 1 think one great reason why my orchard has done so well Is because t have let my sheep run in it a good deal the old man that said this always has the best fruit and the most of it of any man in his neighborhood many years when his neighbors would al most fall of having any fruit his or chard would have a plentiful supply take it this ear for example throughout the entire county there Is a marked scarcity of apples but this man trees are well loaded he will have little fortune from his fruit there Is a great deal of sense in his belief that the sheep have done his orchard good writes I 1 L vincent in farmers review all through the spring and fall after the apples are out of the way he pastures the sheep in the orchard they pick up any small or wormy fruit that may have been left on the ground the leave the richest kind of manure alt over the earth they keep the weeds down and altogether cultivate the orchard as it could not otherwise be we tall fellow farmers by not div ing our orchards better treatment they are starving take many or chadds and ou will see great patches of moss on the ground the branches are many of them dead or dying the earth is covered with grass or weeds that provide the best possible harbor for enemies of the trees how can we expect to get much fruita the wonder Is that we get as much as we do sheep like to run under trees the orchard Is almost the ideal place tor hem |