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 pects are good for this county raising onouh of the bun, if you hav, one;
if not, make a
 cotton for the whoie state Of hld a" this a  els'itern in a ravine,
and fill it in the spring
 son. I saw a famier 'Who raised cotton twenty-
 five years ago, took the cotton twenty-lves miles while i.e ground is froze,
and the water ii
 on horseback to a g i     inanaid 82 per bun-el pure. We can also raise
sheep without on)
 for. Pennsylvania wheat!, anI thinks hecertain-
 y ought to be able to raise cotton this yer. water in summer, and but little
in winter, and
 I saw one gentleman who will put in ten aeres; there is no better climate
than that of Wiscon-
 another twenty acres, sad so on. I enclose to   f
 you two samples of cotton grown in this State; sin for sheep.
 the small sample in Jennings county, and th  We-would urge upon our farmers
to change
 lam  in this county. I hope to hear that Ohio
 will do her share in flax.                   lkek method of farming before
the wheat crop
                                  .____    _  aentwirely fails and they are
obliged to have stock
    STOCK          REGISTER.                  at whatever oost.         
 J. B. DwixNELL.
                                                LoDr, Feb. 1i. 18S6.
      Stock-rasisng versus Grain-groving.                C
   I thini if our farmers would pay more at-
tention to stock, and less to raising wheat, our  FRxE.ND HOYT:-Our "
sore headed calves "
State would be very much benefitted by the are better. I touched some of
their heads with
change. It is an erroneous notion that noth- turpentine; it cleansed them
and started the
ing can be made in raising beef cattle. It is new hair. I think the disease
is contagious.
no difficult matter to make a "' grade " steer It was brought among
ours by a stray calf. In
weigh twelve hundred the fall after he is three the course of four or five
weeks, I noticed two
years old. This, at two dollars and a quarter or three of them had it, then
another, and an-
a hundred, which I think is the average price other, till fourteen had it.
 We had sent one
for such beef, would amount to twenty-seven three miles from home to be weaned;
late in
dollars, which will leave a good profit above the fall he was brought home,
and had no symp-
the cost of raising; besides the manure that toms of it, but after he had
beenhome about
can be made with a stock of cattle is no small the same length of time, be,
too, suffered an
item.                                        attack. That one spoken of in
my last lost its
  Nly plan in raising calves is to let them run eye. I had fed them all some
sulphur before
with a cow, the first season, until the middle I received your recipe, which
was a damage to
or last of September, then wean them, and give them ; one took cold, and
it will be as much as
them good feed until such time as they should we can do to keep him alive
till grass; he has
be taken tip for winter; then I feed them hay a bad cough.
and grain or roots, and give them gool shelter  I see an inquiry about the
culture of pea-
until the next spring when it is time to turn to nuts, in the Itist FARMEa.
We raised s-teic on
pastttre: this is the last grain they will need. the prairie once. They grew
finely, but did
The next winter give themn a plenty of straw  not mature. I think we got
them in too late.
and hay and the third winter they will do well We planted in hills.  I intend
trying them
on yood straw until nearly spring. when feed again this year on sandy land.
hay until grass gets well started.  By this  I understand a number of our
neighbors are
methoId our farmers will make more money going into the culture of sorghum.
If we can
with less labor than by raising so much wheat, get seed, we will cultivate
some. but not on a
and at the end o° ten years the stock farm will argo scale.         
            N. 31.
be wvorthi fifty per cent more that the grain ILuDt, Feb. 23, 1S63.
farlm._
             farm.                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~Gius us more
about Sheep."
  Should it be trgel that our prairie farms are
not adapted to raising stock, in consequence  I wish more was sail in the
FARtMER about
of having no surface water, we would say, sheep, as this is my hobby in stock-raising.
build cisterns and save the water from .! ° roof What is the best work
now being published,



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