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trees of approved sorts; the making of better
fences and the putting up of labor-saving
gates where only bars have been; the build-
ing or repairing of barns, cattle sheds, feed
racks, pig pens, heneries, wood houses, &c.;
the making of a nice and profitable garden;
and last, but not least, attention to all those
improvements of and about your dwelling
which are so requisite to the convenience and
happiness of wives and children-which are
necessary to the very idea of home.;-all these
are legitimate uses for money, and such invest-
ments will pay you a thousand times better
interest than lands which you cannot work
and the payment of interest and taxes on
which would more than likely prove a griev-
ous burden if you had them all paid for.
  Again we say, steady yourselves in these
times of temptation, wisely economise in all
your affairs, get out of debt and keep out, and
put every surplus dollar where it will best
contribute to your own secure happiness and
the prosperity of the country.

     STOCK REGISTER.



To Prevent the Shedding of Wool. and to Cmre the
                 "Scab."
  Mu. EDITOR:-Mr. W. P. Underwood, of
Richland, Minnesota, on page 327, September
number of the FARMER, in an article on sheep-
raising in that State, asks advice through the
FARMIER for feeding and sheltering sheep, So
as to keep them fat without their shedding
wool.
  With thirty years experience, I have not
known high keeping cause wool to shed, that
is, wben properly done. My plan to keep the
wool on would be to keep sheepfut. I think
Mr. Underwood's sheep were not fed regular-
ly,but if they were,they musthave had thescab
If sheep run down from any cause, and are
suddenly recruited, wool will start.  All
kinds of grain will do it; and I have known
a sudden change from a next-to-no-feed pas-
ture to timotby-and-clover full feed, start wool
from a poor sheep.
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with grain; commencing lightly, increasing
gradually until you give them all they will
eat, if you like, and the more they eat the
tighter the wool will stick: provided there is
no dhease. Feed corn, beans, wheat, (?) rye,
barley, oats. vegetables, or anything that
sheep will eat that makes fat-anything you
happen to have the best supply of, avoiding
sudden changes, The wool will not only stick
well, but you will have enough more to pay.
you well. Continue feeding your grain to
the ewes all through the time the lambs are
dropping, if you like, and after that until feed
is so good that they do not care to eat it.
You will raise more 'and better lambs with
much less trouble.
  Each kind of grain in its turn, by different
persons, has been charged with taking the
wool off, so that they have to stop to save the
wool. I think it comes off for want of the
grain, properly fed.
  The best remedy that I know of for thegrub
in the head, is to rub on a little grain that is
found in the troughs, before feeding in the
morning.
  I advise Mr. Underwood to put five lbs 6f
tobacco and two Ibs of copperas-steeping the
mixture thoroughly in water-into about two
barrels of the liquor. Into this dip the sheep
thoroughly, not omitting any part. Do not
be afraid to put the head under two or three
times. This, thoroughly done, will cure the
scab. If they have no scab it will do no
harm, but kill every tick, if there are any.
I have not seen one in my flock in seven years.
  Fix you shed so as to fasten the sheep under
when it storms.
                            Liwis CLARK.
  BELOT, Oct. 17, 1863.

Nilk Fever and Dry Mnrrain.-Quneer lReedles.
  Paro. HOYT:-I send you a remedy for Milk
Fever and Dry Murrain, (very apt to go to-
gether,) which I have used the past season.
  I had a fine cow taken with the dry mur-
rain and milk fever when her calf was about
two days old, which is the usual time for an at-
tack of the above named diseases. After a



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