The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . he people. Take down the streamers,and furl the spars, and throw overboard thecargoes of silks and satins—to enable theship to ride out the storm: but do not cutaway the masts or unship the rudder. Aman short of funds had better eat meat onlythree times a week, than sell his library, ortake his children away from school. So acommunity had better leave as the last thingto be touched by retrenchment, the means ofeducation, and the institutions of if these are crippled, bad is only worse;the main springs of social life are
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . he people. Take down the streamers,and furl the spars, and throw overboard thecargoes of silks and satins—to enable theship to ride out the storm: but do not cutaway the masts or unship the rudder. Aman short of funds had better eat meat onlythree times a week, than sell his library, ortake his children away from school. So acommunity had better leave as the last thingto be touched by retrenchment, the means ofeducation, and the institutions of if these are crippled, bad is only worse;the main springs of social life are of dollars may be saved, in thiscountry,—by giving up what is needless, orhurtful, before there will be any occasion toeconomise in making provision for the dif-fusion of knowledge, or the preservation ofgood morals. The land can do withoutcoaches for a time, and rise again to its for-mer prosperity. Pull down the schoolhousesand l)urn the wheelbarrows, and this landwill remain desolate indeed.—Newbt Herd. No. 2. The Cheviot Sheep. 57. THE CHEVIOT SHEEP;Ewe, bred by Mr. Thomson, Attonburn, Roxborough co. From Loias Illustrations. The Cheviot breed of sheep is derived from a district forming- the mountains, termedCheviot in Scotland. They are composed of a range of beautiful mountains, tending tothe conical, and mostly covered with grasses, ferns, wild thyme, and other plants descrip-tive of trap, often to the very summit; frequently in contact at their bases, or separatedfrom one another by narrow valleys. Their highest summit is 2658 feet above the levelof the sea, and they are frequently capped with snow, long after it has disappeared fromthe lower grounds. This district has produced from time immemorial, a race of sheep en-tirely distinct in character from the breeds of the elevated moors adjoining; they are des-titute of horns, thin faces, and legs white; their bodies are very closely covered with shortwool, which is sufficiently fine for making cloths. The two-shea
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