THE WISOONSIN FARMER.                                
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former vocation, while others would be glad to  S T  O C K   R E G I S T
E R.
get the old place back again if they could com- _
wand the means.                                           XlKdads to Animals.
  Neither can I agree with Adolphus in his es-!  The noble hone who toils
for thee,
timate of grubbing, breaking, starting  a new   And does thy biddin willingly,
                                                    Endowed by God wit instinet
rare,
farm, &c.  Perhaps the grubbing may not be       Should in thy love and
kindness shAre.
as tedious in this vicinity as at Mt. Pisgah, i  The patient ox, who meekly
bows
                                                    lisneath the yoke, and
daily plows
yet I never heard a man complain of its being   The rugged field, should
surely he
                                                    Repaid with tenderness
by thee.
any too easy here; and from what experience            t
I have had I think I am safe in saying I can    iispa not thy gift -bright
reason's ray;
take any ordinary acre of grubby land herea-    Kie gdntle to theheles ownattribute.
bouts and hire it grubbed, broke and sowed,                          -Ww
- yGland Farser.
and, with an average crop and price, I will The Prit of Wool-growing already
Apparent.
pay the whole expense with the first crop of  For years past we have been
abusing wheat-
wheat.
  Adolphus gives me credit for an easier chair growers-exclusive wheat-growers,
we mean-
and a livelier imagination than I pos sess, still and trying to persuade
them into sheep-rais-
I can imagine him a mechanic, with his twelve  ing, as a more profitable
business  To some
children depending upon his daily wages for I extent our arguments and efforts
were success-
their support.  Times are good, because the! ful but the war has done the
business more
farmers raise good crops and, receive a fair I effectually than forty years
of editorial coax-
price for them.  Work is plenty and wages ing and scolding could have done
it. Thus
high. The children have plenty of both food I much to the credit side of
the war. Large
           hig. Te cilden  aveplety f bth oo  numbers of farmers who have
never given
and raiment.  But suppose an untimely frost  n
cuts short the crops, or produce brings a low much attention to stock-growing
of any kind
price. The farmer postpones building &c. and| have discovered the folly
of the exhaustive
there is no work to be had. The chances are system of farming they have been
accustomed
that Adolphus would awake -some cold winter to practice, and have "gone
into the sheep
                                              business."
morning" and find his twelve destitute of
clothing, and crying for bread. Then, I think,  Indeed, we have feared tat
Mmith their nat-
he would wish for a farm that he might raise! ural tendency to extremes many
would come
bread, potatoes, pork and beans, garden sauce to err as much on this side
as they have here-
and fruit; and if I should offer him one rent tofore erred on the other;
and, accordingly,
free for five years, he would go to work upon | it has been our policy to
steady all such with
it with a will, notwithstanding there might be a little timely caution. The
sequel will show
some danger of his losing a little occasionally. that we have taken the right
course, and thor-
through a partial failure of his crops.   oughly convince those who have
felt like find-
                             G. H. AD)AM.    iig fault with us because we
" have not been
  D~AviULr Dodge Co., Wis., Jane, 1863.    more zealous in stirring up the
sheep question
                                              the past year."  We thought
we saw that it
   FALSE BUTTER.-C&II you or any of the nu-
             FALSEBu~rx.-Cn yo  or ny o iheflu-was already sufficiently stirred
up.
merous readers of the FARMER tell the cause of
what is caned false butter, and the way of  But the profits?  Well, they
are coming
avoiding it. I am induced to write you from  along-that is, to all such as
have not paid
            hearing                          ~~~~~~~~~four prices for their
sheep.
hearing the complaints of the butter makers
of this section.                               Mutton bears an extravagant
price in all the
  What is the best method of sprouting locust l principal markets, and good
fine wool ispretty
seed, and seed of all other trees!    .*  much blind to any figures less
than $1 00 per
  CH.kLU CITY, low2.                          pound.