Sheep for Orchards.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 16 June 1891, Page 3

Sheep for Orchards.

' v ** 5 A contemporary soys sheep are ■declared by those who have had es- -' perience to be better scavengers in an orchard than hogs, as they will .. ' : eat up cleaner everything that drops from the trees. Mosses, clover, grasses, and weeds that thrive in the shade are eaten off close by sheep, and, the wbple orchard is kept : deaner, whity there is no disturbance Of tho soil by looting. The objec- -. tion to sheep iv orchard., is that,they will g'uaw the bark off young trees, especially if they are not fully fed , .arid are allowed to/ grow hungry. Tiiis gnawing can be prevented by ; ; • of; isbal i tar . or a -wash prepared.' by mikmg one quart of v soft soap, one quart of lime, one ' tyiirirt of pine tar, with three gallons ■ of sheep, cow, or hen manure, stirjti a sufficient quantity of water .to, make it about the same consistency as ordinary whitewash. - ; : i ifpply . to theatres with a whitewash brush. "This/ of course, wi.l Lot ; proteijt the Itark of the tree from ibifuuies by boms. Ewes without Jhorns w>ll not harm the tree,, and rtutfct are easily kept by themselves •leewhere. ■