Oxford Democrat

Sheep Pastures. Nothing will so economically and rapidly renovate the old exhausted pastures upon New England farms which are partially grown over to bushes and moss, as heavy stocking for two or three seasons with sheep. We say heavy stocking, for the reason that unless the sheep are kept a little short they will not do the work of pruning the briars and bushes which abound, as thoroughly as it should be done to obtain the best results. It is well also to assist the sheep a little in the work of bush pruning, with the scythe, by mowing, when the hands can be spared from other more important duties, the largest and heaviest clumps of bushes, in the old neglected pastures. Farmers unacquainted with the almost magical change wrought in such lands, can hardly realize the improvements that will ensue both in the quantity and quality of pasturage by devoting such lands as we have described to sheep husbandry. (Maine Farmer.