250 
ECONOMICAL MANURE SHEDS. 
rich milk, and only three or four days during 
these sixty, gave less than 23 quarts a-day, and 
for more than thirty days of the sixty reached 25 
quarts. She doubtless would have made as 
much butter as Red Rose, had the experiment 
been tried. 
It will be seen by an advertisement in our 
columns, that Colonel Sherwood offers this fine 
bull for sale; a better one can be bought in no 
country, and his equal, certainly not in this. 
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ECONOMICAL MANURE SHEDS. 
H. M. Baker, a Virginia farmer, thus describes 
the manner of protecting his manure from wash¬ 
ing rains.and the exhausting power of the sun:— 
“ Set a row of forked posts through the cattle 
yard, 10 feet high to sustain a range pole. 
Nine feet distant, set another row, eight feet high ; 
and nine feet further, another row six feet high; 
put range poles upon these and cover the whole 
with old rails or poles, and brush, and upon 
these, put straw, cornstalks, or sedge, to form a 
roof, which will shed off most of the water and 
all the sun. Brace the corners well to pre¬ 
vent accidents from high winds, and heap up all 
your manure, commencing at one end, so as to 
allow cattle to occupy the other portion, and 
you will gain twice the cost of the shed every 
year.” 
A SHEEP SHEARING- FESTIVAL. 
Mr. A. L. Bingham, of Cornwall, Vermont, as 
well as his brother, Mr. Merrill Bingham, keeps 
large flocks of the French and other Merino 
sheep. The last of May is the time of their 
sheep shearing; and in order to make it more 
social and agreeable, and show the country 
what their flocks would produce, they invited 
their friends and neighbors to be present on the 
occasion. Mr. E. D. Barber, of Middlebury, 
gives the following report of the clipping of the 
French Merinos from the importation of Mr. 
Taintor. The fleeces were in the dirt. How 
much clean, well-washed wool they would have 
produced, we are unable to say:— 
“Mr. A. L. Bingham’s flock of French Merino 
sheep consists of 93 breeding ewes, 23 yearling 
bucks, and 105 ewes and buck lambs; being 
from two to five months old, and weighing from 
75 to 140 pounds, according to their age. A 
three-year-old buck, recently imported, weighed 
339 pounds, and sheared, with only ten months’ 
growth of wool, 31* pounds. A two-year-old 
buck, not shorn, weighed 217* pounds. For 
this last-mentioned buck, Mr. Bingham has been 
offered $1,000 by different men. The following 
is a statement of the weight of the sheep and of 
their fleeces, as sheared the 20th of May 
Live weight. Weight of fleece. 
No. 7, 
122 lbs. 
19 lbs. 2 oz. 
40, 
157 
17 
0 
11, 
149 
18 
6 
112, 
118 
17 
12 
31, 
169 
14 
14 
110, 
128 
22 
6 
139, 
92 
19 
12 
00 
Ox 
123 
18 
12 
Making the average weight of the sheep, 132* 
pounds, and the average weight of the fleeces, 
about 18 pounds, 7 ounces. On the 21st of May, 
he sheared six more sheep, the weights of whose 
fleeces were as follows:— 
No. 201, 17 lbs. No. 200, 16* lbs. No. 38,16* lbs. 
90, 16* 
85, 14* 
250,16* 
201, 17* 
117, 15* 
230,15 
31, 15f 
39, 21* 
110, 20 
71, 18 
31, 18* 
7,19 
71, 16* 
39, 17 
Making the average weight of the fleeces about 
17 pounds, 4 ounces. 
Mr. .Merrill Bingham’s flock produced the 
following shearing:— 
No. Ill, 17 lbs. 0 oz. 
5, 13 5 
6 , 12 6 
59, 12 14 
Making the average weight about 13 pounds, 14 
ounces. 
On the next day, he sheared five breeding 
ewes, the weights of whose fleeces were as fol¬ 
lows :— 
No. 81, 19 lbs. 2 oz. 
67, 16 12 
55, 15 8 
54, 16 2 
201, 15 14 
The average being about 16 pounds, 10 ounces. 
At the same time, he sheared eight half-blood 
ewes, one year old, being a cross of the French 
with the Spanish Merinos, with the following 
result:— 
No. 1, 8 lbs. 14 oz. 
2,8 12 
2, 8 4 
4, 7 6 
5, 8 0 
6, 7 8 
7, 9 6 
8,7 3 
The average being about eight pounds, two 
ounces. Mr. M. Bingham imported, in March 
last, 13 French Merino bucks. He has sold 
