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GOMMUWIOATIOErS.
Firtho Indiana Tanner.
Henry County, Ind.   )
■ '- '- ""['..:'■: 3rd mo., 27th, 1856.j
"Frie.vd Editors: Perhaps it would not
be amiss (if hot too late) to mako a few suggestions on the spring management of sheep.
At this season of the year, sheep require great attention, particularly last spring
lambs, and the "weak and old of the Bock,
and ewes that will have lambs this spring.
Such should be put by themselves and have
extra attention; by giving them good hay or
cornfodder and shelled corn, mixed with bran
or oil cake meal, and housed in wet weather,
and kept in the yard till grass comes; for if
they can get the least bit of grass, they will
not eat other feed. The stouter or stronger
of tho flock will do on a stalk field or grass
field that is to be ploughed for corn, with a little hay stacked in the field : and should all be
well tagged before being turned into pasture;
this can be done by catching them and clipping all the wool short, so there will be no dan
ger of tags forming. This wool save carefully
and put in ban-els till next shearing time.—
Ewes should be served in like manner, and
also the wool cut from around the bag, and
from inside or edge of the hind legs,.so that
the lamb can easily find the teat—--for the
lack of this many lambs are lost, as the wool
on the Merinos in particular, is very firm and
thick, and the bag so nearly covered all over,
that a weak lamb-*—unless the ewe is very
quiet and good—will perish before it can
get any- nourishment.
Great care should be taken in handling the
ewes when so heavy. About the lOtli of
4th month is the time for lambs to commence
coming, and at night, and in all cold and
blustering and rainy days, should be housed,
for the least rain will chill a lamb through.
As soon as grass, comes, such ewes as have
lambs should be removed to it. and when
the lamb is a week old, unless it is very
stormy, will shift for itself.   In too many
ewes nnd lambs being together, sometimes
there is a difficulty in ewes not owning their
lambs and taking up' with another's lamb.
This* can be avoided by removing to themselves such as have lambs every few days.
Lambs at ten days old or younger, in fair
weather can be docked, marked, and..made
wethers of—the sooner the better. Ewes
should be looked after at least three times
a day, and by a little care in this way will
pay several fold for thc time spent.
The wool that is tagged from the sheep
with the wool that is clipped from sheep that
have died through the winter, (if any) should
be tub-washed and dried, and a handful put
in each fleece as it is wrapped up as long as
it lasts, and such I consider nearly a clear
gain. . *    -   J. T. :
For tha Indiana Farmer.
Messrs. Editors : I have a Grape-vine-
of Catawba kind, which produced an abundant crop every year, but the fruit invariably'rots before ripening. Heavy pruning,
or training, produce no change in the result.
Another vine, (not so old) a few rods distant
in the same kind of soil, a stiff clay, ripens its
fruit.    Who can tell me what the matter i%?
A Header.
This grape disease has commonly been attributed to a superabundance of moisture
either in atmosphere or in the soil, and that
a dry locality and careful trimming will obviate the difficulty. These opinions may
have some foundation in truth, but we know
that moisture is not the only cause, for it has
often been observed that young vines until
five, six, or eight years old, will bear perfect fruit and afterwards iu dry seasons oi
wet, with close trimming or none at all,
the fruit will uniformily every season rot.
It must then be attributed to a deficiency o*
some-element in the soil. According to our
experience, the free application of old mortar
or lime which has been exposed to the weather
until nearly all its acridity has departed, or
what is still better, calcined plaster of Paris,
around the roots of the vines, will be a- perfect cure. The weekly application of soapsuds around the roots during the summer
season, we have found to produce a wonderful effect in hastening the growth of the
%'ines, and also in increasing the quantity of
fruit—Eos. Far.