The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ted spirit—of passions chastened and af-fections purified, must be cold indeed. In the language of the German bard — A flower do but place near thy window glass,And throiich it no image of evil shall must thou go? on iliy white bosom wearA nosegay, and doubt not an angel is there;Forget not to water at break of the dayThe lilies, and thou shall be ftiirer than they;Place a rose near thy bed nightly sentry to angels shall rock thee on roses to sleep. We have no sympathy with those whowould desecrate and pare down the loveliness
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ted spirit—of passions chastened and af-fections purified, must be cold indeed. In the language of the German bard — A flower do but place near thy window glass,And throiich it no image of evil shall must thou go? on iliy white bosom wearA nosegay, and doubt not an angel is there;Forget not to water at break of the dayThe lilies, and thou shall be ftiirer than they;Place a rose near thy bed nightly sentry to angels shall rock thee on roses to sleep. We have no sympathy with those whowould desecrate and pare down the lovelinessof earth to the grade of mere utility ; who candiscover no beauty in the opening bud andblushing flower, and whose exertions are limit-ed on all occasions, by a parsimonious idola-try, and a worse than idiotic privation of sen-sibility to the Maddening love of gold. [Me. Cult. A Young cow will often be fat on the back,but seldom well tallowed within; an old cowseldom handles so well, but carries most ofher fat within. No. 10. Clayton. 313. CLAYTON. Bred and fed by Major Philip Reybold, Delaware. Live weight, 227 lbs.—dead weight, the four quarters, 130. The two-years old wether pourtrayed above, was the most beautiful of those which wereexhibited and slaughtered on the 3d of March, by Schneck & Brothers; and, it may perhapsbe added, the most perfect of his class that was ever exhibited in the United States by anybreeder. The size of the head and the bones of the legs was remarkably small—to appear-ance almost unnaturally so, but by no means larger than are made to appear in our engrav-ing, the shape of the former being of that snake-like figure as there exiiibited. A portionof this splendid animal is still at the office of the Cabinet, the thickness of the top of the riband the plate, astonishing every one. The new Leicester sheep, although smaller in bulk of body than the long-wooled raceswhich they supplanted—namely, the old Lincoln, Teeswater, and Cotswold—are ye
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