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THE GENESEE FAR^EER. 



Mice on Fruit Treks. — (R. A. C.) One of the most 

 evpeditiuus means of protecting fruit trees fron) the dep- 

 redations of mice is to remove nil grass and weeds from 

 round the trees, and then bank them up with soil. Two 

 hundred can thus be done in a day. The soil should be 

 thrown up from one to two feet, or even higher up the 

 Bteni. It should be higher than the snow. This is not a 

 "certain remedy," in all cases, but it is the best, all 

 tilings considered, that we are acquainted with. Stamp- 

 ing down the snow around the trees is the next best 

 means of preventing injury from mice. 



How "Many Shkep shall wbKkep?— I have been re- 

 quested by some of the readers of the Genesee Fanner in 

 wis place to ascertain through your paper the number of 

 Bheep that could be kept on a farm of 100 acres, if the 

 lambs wei'e sold each fall and only the ewes and bucks 

 kept over winter; and what is the average increase of 

 sheep V — David Uuown, MufMurgh, U. W. 



Will some of our correspondents give us their views on 

 this point? 



In this section, on ordinary farms, where a mixed sys- 

 tem of husbandry is adopted, it is not deemed desirable 

 to keep more than one sheep per acre. 



The average increase from our common sheep is about 

 75 lambs from 100 ewes. It ought to be much higher, 

 and would be if the sheep were better fed in winter. In 

 England 150 lambs from 100 ewes is about the general 

 average. 



Draixivg. — A friend of p^ine has a field that needs 

 draining. The surface soil for from 12 to 20 inches is 

 black muck, resting on hard gravel or stiff clay. How 

 deep do the drains want to be in such a soil ? — C. W. 



Deep enough to drain the subsoil — say two and a half 



to three teet deep. 



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Sural ^nnual aii^ f 0rtifultural ^mdm 



FOR 1864. 



Bvery Reader of the Geiie.9ee Farmer sUould kaire 

 a Copy. 



This little work was started in 18,56, and a new number is 

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Publisher and rroprielor Gener«i e Farmer. 

 October 1, 1868. Kochesler, N. Y. 



Bound Volumes of the Genesee Farmer. 



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