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Sheep in Orchards and Pastures 
I have a young orchard in a corner of 
a pasture lot. The peach trees are about 
five years old, also the apple trees. If I 
should let sheep run in this orchard would 
they do it any harm? If so, in what way? 
I i)k)W between the rows of trees, but 
there is more or less grass growing around 
the trunks of the trees. About how many 
acres of pasture would 12 sheep require? 
The pasture land I have is regular New 
England pasture. Part of it is brush 
wiWi some stone, also some very good 
grass; probably half good pasture and* 
lialf poor. Do .sheep in pasture need any 
feed or grain? About how much salt 
shoiild they have at a time and how of- 
? F. E. B. 
('onnecticut. 
Slieep are very apt to gnaw the bark 
from young fruit trees, and if girdled it 
will kill them. IVe sometimes fence the 
young trees, and I have washed the trunks 
of the trees as high as the sheep could 
reacli with a mixture of cow manure and 
water, quite thick. This can be done with 
an old .broom and .should be a])plied twice 
during the grazing season. I think .sheep 
are beneficial to an orchard, but not as 
much so as hogs. Twelve sheep could be 
pastured for the season, six months, on 
three or four acres if gf)od pasture, but 
the ordinary New England i)astiire will 
do well to keep two sheep to the acre. 
There seems to be a notion that sheep 
will*thrive on any old pasture, and that 
them on half pint medicine bottles. She 
took fresh cow’s milk, warming it slightly, 
and tried to make the pigs drink. We had 
to hold the pigs, force the nipple into 
their mouths and then press it with 
thumb and finger to force a little milk 
into their month. The first day they 
would not suck, but on the second day 
most of them drank voluntarily after the 
nipple was placed in their mouths. Oa 
the fourth day, by accident one of them 
got into a .small pan of milk and started 
to drink. Fle was as much surprised as 
we wei'e, but when the rest of the litter 
heard him drink tliey went after it, too. 
I made a low trough and thereafter they 
drank out of it. Wlion a week old we 
substituted separator skim-milk and at 
two weeks old we started using a little 
middlings. At three weeks we added a 
little pig feed, and at five weeks wei'e 
feeding a slop of skim-milk with equal 
Iiarts middlings and pig feed. The first 
tlii-ee weeks we fed them six times a day, 
the fourth week five times and thereafter 
four times. When two weeks old they 
developed a habit of sucking cacli othci; 
and I found it necessary lo shut them in 
separate small jicns and feed each sepa¬ 
rately. When farrowed the eight weiglu'd 
221^ lbs.; at one week old, 28 lbs.; at 
two weeks, .‘j,5 lbs.; at thr(‘e weeks, 44 
lbs.; at four weeks 50 lbs., and at five 
Rprayiiifi the Cow irith Rheep Dip. She Does Not Like It. hut It Does Her Good 
they will eat anything and thrive just as 
well as they will in a meadow. Sheep 
will not eat the red raspberry bush, but 
will kill black raspberries. Cattle are 
much better browsers to kill out bushes 
than sheep, but sheep will oat most weeds. 
AVoodlots and pastures do not go well 
together iuid should be fenced apart, as 
the -stock kill the underprush and the wind 
blows the leaves away, leaving the roots 
oxijosed, as they are deprived of the leaf 
mulch, and the manure is dropped in the 
woods and the field grows poorer. I have 
seen this tried. A fence was made be¬ 
tween the woods and the cleared land 
with the result that both improved rap¬ 
idly. AVe do not feed grain when our 
sheep are on pasture unless there is a 
drought, when it is better to feed a little 
grain than to let the sheep run down. 
Keep salt in a box for the sheep all the 
time. The box should have a co^^r and 
an opening iit one side for the sheep to 
get at the salt. Salt the sheep a little 
each day in tlie morning, if not frosty, 
until the sheep get all they want, then 
you can give them what they want at all 
times. 
Sheep need dry laud as they will not 
feed on wet laud if given a choice. My 
sheep always winter better after a dry 
season. I think they have fewer parasites 
and the hay that grows the dry season 
seems to have bettor feeding value. 
Rensselaer Co., N. Y. n. k. perby. 
weeks, 80 lbs. We sold them wlien 40 
days old for $58, which was just tliat 
much more than we expected to have 
wlieu the sow dleel. The peculiar feature 
was that although there were two runts 
when born, at five weeks of age they 
did not vary a half pound in weight. We 
feel that we had unusually good fortune. 
New .Jersey. c. k. berger. 
Milk and Live Stock News 
Raising Pigs by Hand 
On page 154 R. E. C. asks about rais¬ 
ing orphan pigs. We had a Duroc sow 
that farrowed on May 18, and died imme¬ 
diately before the small pigs had a chance 
to eat. There were eight of them, and as 
young i)igs were selling for .$15 per pair, 
we hated to lose them, but knew nothing 
about raising them by hand. However, 
we decided to try it and Mrs. l>erg('r took 
the jol) as I was vei*y l)us,^ in the corn¬ 
fields. She secured two nipples and put 
This is a dairy section. Milk on butter- 
fat test brought from this farm : Janiiarv, 
$8.77; February, $8.55; March, $8..8f); 
April, $2.71; May, $2.71. Not much call 
for potatoes; we get $1 per bushel. Eggs, 
88c. Some of the neighbors who have 
raised Avheat cannot get millers to grind 
it. Hay in this section is about half croj). 
Some farmers raise peas; send them to 
New York City, and indces vary greatly. 
Madi.sou Co., N. Y. ' a. m. 
The leading products of Tioga Co. are 
milk, butter, veal calves, sheep, hogs, 
poultry, oats, potatoes, buckwheat, rye, 
corn for silo, wheat and hay. beans. 
Milk, $1.85; butter, 40c; veal calves, 
15c; .sheep, $18 to $25 apiece; hogs, 
live, 27c; poultry. 25c, live. Oats. $1.25; 
potatoes, .$1 for new; 40. to 00c for old. 
Buckwheat, $3.75 per cwt.; rye, .$1.70; 
wheat, $2.20. Hay, $20 per toil. Beans, 
$!) per bu. Eggs, 40c. The weather con¬ 
ditions in this section have not been very 
good for crop growth so far this Spring 
and Summer, but have been better the 
jiast week. "We have had mneh rain and 
cold, sour weather. Oats and potatoes 
look good, but corn is just coming up; 
some is not sown yet. Hay is going to 
be a ]»oor crop except new seeded, which 
is good. j. L. ir. 
Tioga Co.. N. Y. 
Nothing being sold at present hut a 
little hay and butter and eggs at the 
groeei*i(‘s. Eggs. 85 to 8Ge; butter, 
87 to 40e per lb. Creamery is jiaying 
441/^0 iier lb. for butterfat. Hay. pota¬ 
toes, wheat, beans and dairy products are 
our principal money crops. Tlie bay 
crop in this section light in quantity and 
inferior in quality. Winter wheat is less 
acreage than usual and very poor. A 
good many acres have been dragged up 
and sown to Spring wheat. .Spring wheat 
July 27, 1918 
acreage is much greater than usual, and 
fields are looking fine. Beans are back¬ 
ward and acreage liardly up to normal, 
but with good weather from now on may 
produce an average crop. The potato 
acreage is less than usual: too early in 
season to foretell prospect for crop. Buck¬ 
wheat acreage will be larger than usual 
and many are busy now fitting ground 
and sowing this crop. I.abor is scarce and 
wages are high ; prospects are not good 
for a fair remuneration per acre farmed. 
Not much of the laud is being farmed to 
the limit. Farmers are raising the crops 
that require the least labor. w. E. w. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 
We are situated near the junction of 
the two rivers, the Otselic and the Tiongh- 
niaga, the country being hilly back from 
the water. The land is cut into several 
farms which are almost exclusively in 
dairying, most grade Holstein cattle. Onr 
milk goes to Borden’s or some other New 
York firni^ and is hauled back from eight 
to ten miles. The price this year ha.s 
varied from month to month. The month 
of .Tune brought^ us $1.70 for 8% milk, 
with the usual raise for higher test. Milcli 
cows nsual’y sell from $05 to $100 a head. 
There are no sheep to speak of in this 
part; not many hogs are kept, not more 
than enough for home consumption. Far¬ 
mers'usually Iiave a small surplus of egg.s 
which are now bringing from 88 to 40c. 
Our crops consist mostly of grass, oats, 
corn, potatoes and millet, with a .scatter¬ 
ing hero and tliei’o of buckwheat. This 
year, however, there is quite a sprinkling 
of wheat. both Spring and Winter, Spring 
wheat being ti'ied for tlie first time in a 
number of years. Farmers usually raise 
from five to ten acres of oats, which are 
generally f(>d at home. Corn about the 
same, which is mostly used for silage, 
silage being made of corn or millet, or 
both. Dur potato crop generally I'un.s 
from lialf an acre to four acres, yielding 
about 200 binshels ])er acre, usually bring¬ 
ing us from 35 to ,50 cents per bushel. 
Tlie last two years, liowever. they brought 
from .$.8 to .‘>0e. which is the price at the 
present time. Cabbage is not extensively 
raised here. The crops at this time look 
very favorable, e.speeially the oats and 
hay, altliough the corn is rather backward. 
The pastures are very good. Yon will see 
that we have to buy nearly all the grain 
wliieh we feed iind with the enorrnou.s 
I)rice now. it keeps ns guessing wlndher 
we can keep the wolf from the door from 
month to month. ,j_ j (; 
Broome Co., N. Y. . 7 . .i. g. 
Schoharie County Calf Club 
T his year 02 entities and contracts were 
received for the Boys’ and Cirls’ Live¬ 
stock Club. The calves were selected and 
purchased by the purchasing committee of 
the Schoharie County Broeder.s’ Associa¬ 
tion. 
All but five of the calves were pur¬ 
chased from' breeders of i)ure-bred live- 
sbick outside of this county. Thi.s year 
i>i Holsteins wor<» jilaced, besides three 
Guernseys and two .lersey calves. 
The calves were l)ronght to the barn 
of the Schoharie State School of Agricul¬ 
ture. Col>le.skill. and allotted. 
About 2 I*. M. President B. H. Bruce 
of the Breeders’ Association called the 
I)eoi)le together and gave a short talk 
about the animals and the method of 
finance. This year, at last, the project 
is being financed by the First National 
Bank of Cohleskill under the direction 
of Mr. A. C. Kilmer, cashier. They liave 
made a simide form note which the boy 
or girl signs and the parent, promising 
to pay the face value plus interest at tlie 
rate of six iier cent per annum. Tlie 
matter of insurance was considered, in 
case of loss of an animal, iiiid it was mu¬ 
tually decided that two dollars Avoiild be 
added to the face value of each note to 
serve as insurance in case of loss. Thi.s 
amount to be paid toward the purchase 
price, and. if no loss, the extra two dol¬ 
lars to interest to be charged on the in¬ 
surance fund. Next Mr. Bruce intro¬ 
duced Harry D. Bander, who is to suc¬ 
ceed Mr. T. A. Baker, former secretary 
of the Breeders’ Association and in¬ 
structor in Animal Husbandry and Dairy¬ 
ing at the State School. Mr. Bander 
gave a short talk on the care and man¬ 
agement of calves and yearlings. He em¬ 
phasized the importance of cleanliness, 
proper feed and good management. 
The next on the program for the day 
was the actual drawing of numbers for 
the calves. The calves were numbered 
in rotation and a duplicate number was 
placed in a sealed envelope, placed in a 
churn and whirled around several times, 
then stopped and the boys and girls drew 
the envelopes as they pa.ssed by the 
churn. 
The number and A’alue of the calves 
showed a marked itierease over last year. 
Last year 17 animals were distributed at 
an UA'erage eost of $77.08; this year 02 
animals were distributed at an average 
eost of $!)0.02. 
About one year from now the calves 
are all to be brought to the Schoharie 
State School of Agriculture. Cohleskill, 
and sold at i)ublic auction to the highe.st 
bidder. The boy or girl may bid in the 
calf which he or she has cared for dur¬ 
ing the year. 
Each boy and girl is keeping an accu¬ 
rate account of the expenses of the an¬ 
imal, and the one having the best-kept 
I'ecords Avill receive a reAvard at time of 
sale; also the boy or girl having the 
animal with the best improA'emeut for the 
year is to receive a prize. 
