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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
LIVE STOCK FOR THE ORCHARD. 
We grow but little stock, aiming to 
keep only about what is needed to work 
* the farm and supply the needs of the 
families on it. Circumstances do not, 
at present, warrant our doing other¬ 
wise. Were we to make a business of 
raising any kind of stock we think we 
would select such as could be allowed 
the run of the orchard at times. This 
would practically eliminate horses and 
cattle, as they cannot be kept in an or¬ 
chard much of the time unless the trees 
are large and headed high. This then 
would leave only hogs and sheep to 
choose between. Most of our orchard 
we surface-cultivate during the early 
part of the season, following with a 
cover crop, sown the latter part of Sum¬ 
mer. Our trees are mostly headed quite 
low, and while sheep could be turned 
in at intervals to eat the weeds and the 
grass along fences, and pick up the 
fallen fruits they would also trim off 
the lower limbs of the trees and 
eat the fruit, so sheep are hardly practi¬ 
cable in our method of orcharding. I 
have seen sheep stand on their hind legs 
to browse the leaves or reach apples. 
I should not want to pasture an orchard 
with-sheep continuously, even with high¬ 
headed trees to the extent of keeping the 
grass short as I think they compact the 
soil too much and make it liable to dry 
out- too much in a dry Summer. This 
then leaves hogs as the only practicable 
stock to raise in our system of orchard¬ 
ing. and with proper planting of early 
and late varieties, and division of the 
manufacture manure, but the former 
have no place in a practical business 
orchard. D. c. bassette. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Sheep Preferred. 
I think almost all fruit growers do 
more or less farming with their fruit 
interests, and see the necessity of keep¬ 
ing what stock they can. We keep seven 
or eight horses, just enough to do our 
work. We have tried cows, and they 
make too much work in the Summer; we 
have only one on 270 acres, just enough 
for milk. I have tried hogs several 
times, fencing them in, in parts of the 
orchard and feeding them the waste 
fruit. They don’t do well on stone 
fruits, as they will crack the pits, and 
thej r make their teeth sore. The last 
ones we kept, I went out one morning to 
feed and found that an old sow had 
ripped the bark off clean from the 
ground to the limbs on three young ap¬ 
ple trees, and partly off of five more. I 
think there was a little “possessed of the 
devil” feeling in me then, but the hogs 
didn’t run down into the sea. We keep 
from 125 to 200 ewes, rent a farm and 
pasture them on it in the Summer; have 
about 15 acres of Alfalfa, and that with 
the corn fodder we raise among the 
young trees keeps them and the horses 
during the Winter. 
Why do we keep sheep on a fruit 
farm? Because we can always find 
enough to do in the Summer without 
looking after stock. We have the lambs 
come in March and shear the ewes just 
before lambing time; then they are ready 
SHFEP IN AN ORCHARD. 
orchard by fences, we think it an ex¬ 
cellent practice. Where hogs are al¬ 
lowed to range in an orchard they will 
pick up much of the wormy and defective 
fruit, and help much in keeping the 
insects in subjection, but unless the 
orchard is small, or if large, subdivided 
by suitable fences, they cannot be al¬ 
lowed to run during the time of the 
maturing of the fruit without destroying 
many apples that are usable either for 
market or for cider. 
Illinois. L. B. BRYANT. 
Hogs and Sheep in Orchards. 
My orchard, A l / 2 acres, has been in sod 
about 30 years and has been pastured 
every season by hogs and sheep. My 
hogs have the run of the orchard the 
year through and are kept rung. In 
order to keep the pasture short the sheep 
are turned in at frequent intervals. By 
keeping a limited number of hogs, and 
providing other range for the sheep, I 
can make good use of all the pasture the 
orchard affords and yet not overstock it. 
The hogs are always fed some grain, 
and the sheep also if their condition 
demands it. The orchard gets a top¬ 
dressing each season of barnyard manure, 
straw, manure from hogpen and a few 
bushels of ashes from the kitchen stove. 
The income from apples has been good. 
The income from hogs some seasons has 
been large enough to pay the hired man. 
There are some drawbacks to pasturing 
orchards. Trees set to fill vacancies have 
to be penned in for a few years. Sheep 
will sometimes develop an appetite for 
bark, and then the bodies of the trees 
have to be painted with liquid cow 
manure. Cows and horses are better 
probably than sheep and hogs simply to 
to turn out early. Two or three hours 
a week is all the care they need till Fall. 
We find them as profitable as any stock 
we can keep. Then the fencing is an 
important item, plenty of 34-inch wire 
netting is all that is needed. We often 
run it around blocks of trees in the 
Fall and let them eat up the weeds and 
the refuse fruit. We use the manure on 
the young trees and on the poor places 
in the orchard. If chickens were stock 
we would say put in a lot of them. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. T. H. king. 
Stubs: “What’s the trouble, old chap? 
You look angry enough to fight.” Penn: 
“Oh, I’m sizzling. It took me an hour 
to button my wife’s waist, and then I 
told her a joke and she laughed so much 
the buttons all flew open. What’s the 
use in telling a woman a joke, anyhow?” 
—Chicago News. 
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