THIE WISCONSIN FARMER.



          The Road to Poor Farming.
  1. Invest all your capital in land, and run
in debt for more.
  2. Hire money to stock your farm.
  3. Have no faith in your own business, and
be always ready to sell out.
  4. Buy mean cows, spavined horses, poor
oxen and cheap tools.         0
  5. Feed poor hay and mouldy cornstalks ex-
clusively, in order to keep your stock tame;
fiery cattle are terribly hard on old rickety
wagons and plows.
  6. Use the oil of hickory freely whenever
your oxen need strength; it is cheaper than
hay or meal, keeps the hean lively, and pounds
out all the grubs.
  7. Select such calves for stock as the butch-
ers shun-beauties of runts, thin in the hams,
and pot-bellied; but be sure and keep their
blood thin by scacty herbage; animals are
safest to breed front that haven't strength to
herd.
  8. Be cautious about manufacturing ma-
nure; it makes the fields look black and
mournful about planting time; besides it is a
deal of work to haul it.
  9. Never waste time by setting out fruit and
shade trees; fruit and leaves rotting around
a place make it unhealthy.-Springfield Re-
publican.

  JOHN JOHtNSTON AND nIs FA1in.-The Gene-
see Farmner says:-' A day or two since we
were on the farm of John Johnston, of Gene-
va, N. Y., the noble old farmerof underdrain-
ing celebrity.  He remarked: 'TThe wheat
midge never did me much damage.' For 30
years he has fed out large quantities of oil-
cake, corn, &c., lo cattle and sheep on his farm.
Ile has used more or less lime and any quan-
tity of plaster. lie has raised immense crops
of clover and made it into hay and fed it out
to sheep.  In this way he has made his land
rich.  At the same time he has tile-drained
every field on the farm, or, we might say, ev-
ery rod. IHe has laid over fifty miles of under-
draining tile. His land is dry, rich, and well
cultivated, and ' the midge never did him
much damage.' No wonder that he is the
great American Apostle of high farming."

          A Ton of Hay by Measure.
  It is a matter of considerable dispute how
much hay ii the moir ought to be allowed as a
ton in wetilt.  In some of the agricultural
journals figures widely apart are given as cor-
rect. Some assert that a cube of ten feet
square is required, or 1000 cubic feet; while
others place it as low as six feet square, and
eight feet deep, or only 288 cubic feet. Now,
both of these cannot be right, neither can any
measure be fixed upon to hold good under all
circumstances. Hay at the bottom of the mow
will be more solid than at the surface, and



the whole will be very much affected by the
quantity of grain put on top of it (if any)
and the depth of the hay.
  'But, having occasion to sell a ton of hay in
my barn, to be sure of the quantity for future
reference I measured off a space 8 feet square
on one corner of the mow, and cut down 7
feet deep, and found the hay removed weighed
2,020 tbs., thus making 448 cubic feet, a good
measure for a ton of average hay; it was tak-
en from the surface, upon which 200 dozen of
good oats had been stored.  The hay was 12
feet deep.
  In this county, when hay is sold in the barn,
it is generally calculated 392 feet to a ton,
which I am confident will always fall short.
On the contrary, 448 is as near the correct
number as actual trial will give me.-Ex.



STOCK REGISTER.

Sheep Hasbandry and its Importance to the Loyal
                   States.
  It is asserted by parties well informed upon
the subject that no country adapted to "Sheep
Husbandry " has ever entered into this im-
portant branch of agriculture without becom-
ing wealthy. In England-where the annual
rent of the land is fully equal to the cost of
the freehold in Illinois or Michigan-thebusi-
ness is carried on to a larger extent and with
greater profit than in any other part of the
world. Sixty millions of sheep are clipped in
the United Kingdom.   The fleeces average
about 5 l) after being washed, and it is not an
uncommon thing for a quarter of mutton to
weigh 60 11 after being dressed. Many of the
fleeces weigh full 8 l1). It is a common im-
pression that the English people are more fond
of beef than of any other animal food. "John
Bull " and " roast beef " are by many consid-
ered synonymous terms, but, nevertheless,
mutton has for the last half century displaced
beef on the Englishman's table.
  A farmer in England who keeps no sheep
upon his land is regarded as a poor manager,
and behind the age. Sheep manure is valued
at 40c. per head  Instead of importing gua-
no from a distance of twelve thousand miles,
at a cost of from sixty to seventy dollars a
ton, the manure of sheep is obtained at com-
paratively no expense, and is equally distrib-
uted over the land. From the discussion of



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