. Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside. ryWilson, in speaking of his last tour of the South,which opens such inducements for diversified farm-ing as the Southern section of the United States. Ibelieve that the next few years will see a developmentgreater than has ever taken place in any sec-tion of our country, and the keynote of this will bediversified crops, the doing away with the single farmcrop, and the feeding of crops on the farm. Secretary Wilson is a conservative as well as a far-seeing man and a farmer
. Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside. ryWilson, in speaking of his last tour of the South,which opens such inducements for diversified farm-ing as the Southern section of the United States. Ibelieve that the next few years will see a developmentgreater than has ever taken place in any sec-tion of our country, and the keynote of this will bediversified crops, the doing away with the single farmcrop, and the feeding of crops on the farm. Secretary Wilson is a conservative as well as a far-seeing man and a farmer himself, and his words maybe taken at their face value. We commend them toour young men. The brown mare Frances S. Dayton, 2 :27 .3-4, byCadmus, Jr., dam the great brood mare Daisy Day-ton, dam of Lake Erie, 2:13 1-4, etc., by RysdyksBellfounder, owned by James Cox, Belgravia Farm,Mt. Jackson, Va., foaled on June 1st, a shapely bayfilly by Kelly, 2:27, and was bred back to the blood-like, handsome son of Electioneer and famous thor-oughbred Esther, the dam of Expressive, 3, 2 :12 1-2. 460 THE SOUTHERN PLANTEE. [July. THE FARMERS DOG. The true farmers dog is a Collie. Heis, when properly bred and trained,worth a half dozen hands in handlingsheep and stock generally. We have seen a shepherd with twodogs round up and hold a flock ofhundreds of sheep on the wild, un-fenced moorlands of the north of Eng-land, and then pass them through asmall opening between two short lengthsof hurdles and count them without theassistance of another man, and all thisdone by the dogs without harassing orchasing the sheep. The dogs and sheepare on the best terms with each other, allseemingly enjoying the round up. We produce herewith a picture of oneof the handsomest dogs of this breed inthe country, the imported GeneralFrench, owned by the MaplemontStock Farm, whose advertisement willbe found in our columns. GAPES IN CHICKENS. The following comes from A. F. C, Rossville,Ind.: Our little chickens are
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