THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



thorough and careful management which guar-
antees safety, comfort and despatch; besides
which they constitute the most natural outlet
for Wisconsin and Minnesota exportations and
travel, and should, therefore, practically be
regarded as, in a peculiar sense, our own roads.
  For time table &c., see railroad column in
advertising department.


  The Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chica-
go Railway is deservedly popular. Being
the route which naturally connects the north-
west with Indiana, Ohio, the great Middle and
the more eastern Southern States, it has re-
quired from the first nothing more than thor-
ough construction and able management to
secure it an immense patronage.
  We have repeatedly passed over it on our
way to various points on, and east of, the
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati R. R., to
Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Philadelphia arg New
York, and always when we have visited Balti-
more and Washington; and never have we left
its elegant and convenient ears, nor parted
company with its polite and obliging conduc-
tors, without saying within ourselves, This is
one of the very best railroads in this country.
  So far as to Pittsburg, going eastward, there
is nothing in the scenery particularly to delight
the eye; but from Pittsburg all the way to
rhiladelphia, there is scarcely a mile that does
not present objects remarkable and memorable
for either beauty or sublimity or both-beau-
tiful rivers winding through fertile valleys,
and grand old mountains peaked with barren
rock or crowned with cedar and laurel. In
these respects it is only rivalled by one or two
roads in the extreme north.
  See advertisement, and don't fail on the first
occasion to give this road a trial.


  Sample of our Endorsements.-PE-
WAUKEE, WIS.- * * Your articles on Agri-
culture and its kindred subjects are so sensible
and so eminently practical that their perusal
always gives me, although no great farmer,
both pleasure and profit.  The spirit of patri-
otism which your journal breathes is at once



so intelligent and pure, the morality so lineral,
yet high toned and christian, that I hope, for
the honor of Wisconsin, the journal will not
only be sustained, but most liberally sustained.
I shall feel it a pleasure at all times to recom-
mend it to my neighbors. ALEX. F. NORTH.


  Who has Received Seeds ?-We trust
all to whom we have sent during the past
month. These seeds have cost us much mon-
ey, as well as a good deal of labor, and we
trust they will prove acceptable to the host of
working friends of the FARMER to whom they
have been mailed. Of course, only enough of
each kind to secure to each receiver the seed
has been sent. Don't neglect to make the most
of them, and then report.

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.


  Bilious Colic in Sheep.- WAUTONA,
Wis., March 20, 1863.-I wish to inquire
through the FARMER for a remedy or cure for
the disorder called bilious colic, or stretches,
in sheep.  I have lost one very fine ewe and
have another like to be among the dead in a
day or two. No medicine, as yet, has been of
the least service. My flock have been troubled
very much this winter, more than for years
back. Their feed has been good hay, cut ear-
ly, and wheat bran or wheat screenings daily.
Can any one tell me what is the cause of the
complaint, and a sure cure ?
  I had thought salt a sure remedy, but it has
failed this season.
  Will you or some of your readers inform me
where I can obtain the Black Spanish fowl, of
pure blood, the price per pair, and the price
per dozen for eggs ?     SETH ROWLEY.

  Public Spirited and Plucky.-FAin-
FIELD, Wis.-I would not take a good many
dollars for what the FARMER has taught me
the past year.  I have tried several of my
neighbors to join me, but have not prevailed
on many of them yet. I am not going to give
them up, however, for I think they ought to
have the FARMER, if they don't have any other
publication on their farms. 0. L. GLAZIER.



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