. The Southern planter. e South because our lands are runninf down and no animals on earth can reclaim landslike sheep. Sheep choose the high, dry places to lieon at night There they leave their droppings, thatpound for pound is worth more than any plant foodon earth. These very high places are the poorest,worst washed, barest places. Dont you see then whata flock of sheep will do ? They will during the daygather the grass in the valleys and hollows, where itgrows luxuriantly from the plant food washed offthe hills and every night they carry it backto the hillswhence it came. I was once walkin
. The Southern planter. e South because our lands are runninf down and no animals on earth can reclaim landslike sheep. Sheep choose the high, dry places to lieon at night There they leave their droppings, thatpound for pound is worth more than any plant foodon earth. These very high places are the poorest,worst washed, barest places. Dont you see then whata flock of sheep will do ? They will during the daygather the grass in the valleys and hollows, where itgrows luxuriantly from the plant food washed offthe hills and every night they carry it backto the hillswhence it came. I was once walking over a farm witha man who remarked that he never saw such a sod onhills as he saw on this farm. Kicking over a pile ofsheep droppings that lay in a clump of dark greenblue grass, I said, Here is the secret. iSTothingequal to sheep for reclaiming land. I have heard cattlemen assert that sheep destroy sod. I wouldnt takethe time to refute this. I simply refer such doiibt-ing Thomases to England, where I have seen twenty. iiise wooled shpeii fiom ;to thrive in Georgia. sheep to the acre grazing over a sod that would putour best Kentucky sods to shame. Again we wantsheep to clean up these weeds that are crowding every-thing else out. Sheep weie not made to live on weeds,but with every meal they will take a goodly supply asa sort of desert. I watched a lamb one after noon forone hour and in that hour I listed sixteen differentkinds of weeds that I saw her bite off. The heads of^x-eye, ragweed and carrot that she ate in this hour>tild certainly have run up close to one hundred. P. JH. HILL I saw an interesting thing a few years ago. I hadjust walked across a field that was pastured withsheep. I noticed that weeds were almost rare in that
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