. The New England farmer . ne of the children jumped on his knee And says, yans Jones, which you bought hisland. And there was Jones, standing out at the he hadnt no wagon, nor mules, nor he had left Texas afoot and con)eTo Georgia to see if he couldnt get someEmployment, and he was looking as hum-Ble as if he had never owned any land. But Brown he asked him in, and he sotHim down to his victuals smoking when he had tilled himself and the floorBrown looked at him sharp and rose and sworeThat whether mens land was rich or poor, There was more in the man than there wa
. The New England farmer . ne of the children jumped on his knee And says, yans Jones, which you bought hisland. And there was Jones, standing out at the he hadnt no wagon, nor mules, nor he had left Texas afoot and con)eTo Georgia to see if he couldnt get someEmployment, and he was looking as hum-Ble as if he had never owned any land. But Brown he asked him in, and he sotHim down to his victuals smoking when he had tilled himself and the floorBrown looked at him sharp and rose and sworeThat whether mens land was rich or poor, There was more in the man than there was in theland. s. L. —To encourage tlie growtli of forest trees at theWest, Mr. N. S. French, of Carroll County, III.,states in the Prairie Farmer that he has this win-ter cut doHii a Cottonwood tree twenty-nine yearsold that measured thirty-seven incites in diameterat the stump, and furnished two logs of about 300feet, log measure, and nearly or quite a cord ofwood. It grew in his barn yard. 1871. NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 241. SHEEP HUSBANDRY. o MUCH was said a fewyears ago in relation tothis branch of New Eng-land farming, and sogreat a revolution in itsuddenly took place, thatthose persons who are notengaged in it may sup-pose that the culture ofsheep has been nearlyabandoned. Such, how-ever, is not the 30,000,000 to 40,-000,000 of sheep are still in the country, anda fair portion of them in the New EnglandStates. The interest in their culture is stillan important one in Maine, Vermont andNew Hampshire. The light hay crop of last summer may in-duce some to resort to a poorer quality offodder for the sheep. Empty scaffolds, anddecreasing bays may suggest this. The policywould be a poor one, and ought to lead tothe is the effect of Food on the ?Wool ?The character of the food has much to donot only in the production of good sheep andgood lambs, but also in the production ofwool. A leading object in raising wool shouldbe to keep the siaple even through its e
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