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S. E. Stone. I would like to ask one question in regard 

 to pasturing sheep. Is it desirable or proper to keep sheep 

 continually on the same pasture ? 



The Chairman. They do better to change. I merely 

 stated that as an exaggerated system. I have tried that, 

 and tested it very carefully. I propose to cut my pastures 

 up into five or six, and let the sheep run ten days in one and 

 ten days in another. 



Question. How many sheep can you feed on one acre, 

 as compared with one cow ? 



The Chairman. From eight to ten. 



Hon. J. E. Eussell. You might have stated that the 

 buyers in Boston want lighter lambs than they used to. 

 They will buy lambs weighing from twenty-two to twenty- 

 five pounds, when they used to insist upon having a lamb 

 weigh thirty or thirty-five pounds. 



The Chairman. When I began it took me from seventy 

 to eighty days to get lambs that would dress twenty-five 

 pounds. I can now do it easily in forty days. 



Adjourned to two o'clock. 



Afternoon Session. 



The meeting was called to, order soon after two o'clock by 

 Mr. Wood, who said : — 



The subject of this afternoon's lecture is "Fruit Grow- 

 ing." We have to speak upon that subject a gentleman 

 whose successful experience for more than thirty years in 

 growing the fruits of New England has been an object lesson 

 to the neighbors in the vicinity where he lives. I have the 

 pleasure of introducing to the audience Dr. Fisher of Fitch- 

 burg. 



