T  N 3IN FARMER.



equal to seven dollars and twenty cents of our number could be doubled without
producing a
money. Neither of them had ever had on ei- sufficient quantity of wool and
mutton to sup-
ther a shoe or a bonnet, yet they were pictures ply the demand for the next
five years.
of health, and apparently contented.        There is no mystery about Sheep
Husband-
  These few facts are believed to be fair illus- ry. All that is required
to conduct the busi-
trations of the laboring classes of Europe, ness successfully is the exercise
of plain
and will serve to show thle inability of the common sense, which dictates
that all domes-
laboring people to indulge in dress to any- tic animals (and sheep in particular,)
to thrive
thing like the extent that the American peo- well, require to be well fed,
to have plenty of
pie are in the habit of doing, and they ought room, and to be well protected
from storms.
furthermore to be convincing proof of the The recent repulse of the Army
of the Poto.
blessings we enjoy as compared with any oth- mac is calculated to prolong
the war, to put
er people on the face of the earth.       further off the renewal of the
cotton supply,
  Our information from the West is to the ef-| and to make necessary the
call for half a mil-
fect that much more attention has been paid lion men. It will furthermore
necessarily in-
within the past year to Sheep Husbandry, and crease the issue of Government
currency. All
that the clip of the present year will be larger these influences will tend
to increase the de-
than usual, but we are inclined to believe that mand for wool and to enhance
the price. In
our Western farmers do not fully realize the February we advised the Western
farmers to
immense increase of the demand which will buy every sheep that their means
would admit
be created for the great staple by the cutting of, and to sell none, nor
kill any, except the
behcreaofted forthegreat staple. bythcttngaged. We would renew that advice,
with the
                                             addition that they import the
Leicester and
  At the breaking out of the rebellion there Cotswold breeds from Canada
as largely as
was in the hands of manufacturers, commis- possible.-Bronomist.
sion houses, importers, jobbers and retailers,                _
a very large stock of woolen goods, the cncu- '[he Datura Stramonium, or
thorn apple plant,
mulation of years. The stock of cotton goods is a very excellent remedy,
as an external ap-
was also large, and to work off the surplus of| plication, for the treatment
of muscular pain,
*Th Iync *-i ...,        Tt {c:_       1_ *,l ligamentary lameness, sprain
of the fetlock,



at present the stocks are limited both of cot- ic pains and inflammatory
tumors. Four os.
tons and woolens, as compared with the re- of the plant, to one pint of boiling
water, are
                                             the proportions. When cool,
the parts are to
quireutents of thirty millions of people, and be bathed often; when practicable,
a flannel
that cotton having reached a point nearly as i is to be saturated with the
fluid, and bound
high as wool, the demand for the latter must on the affected parts, the whole
to be covered
                                             with oiled silk.
necessarily be greatly increased, If we did  The above is from an exchange.
Medical
not produce in the United States more than a works state that stramonium
as an outward
half the wool used by manufacturers before sapplication allays pain. It is
used to make a
                                             salve by macerating it in hot
lard, then strain-
the commencement of the war, and wien cot- ing it. It is applied to burns,
scalds, and is
ton was abundant at ten cents a pound, is it used for piles and bruises.
The thorn apple is
not reasonable to suppose that we could double  deadly poison.-Scientific
American.
the production profitably now, when cotton is |  The Scottish Agriculturist
says:-" An
at 6e cents a pound and when there is sound animal possessed of a broad,
full, capacious
                                             skull, with strong, evenly bent,
deflective
reason for believing that it will not for years horns, will be found to have
a thick neck at
to come, whether the war is prolonged or not, the base, wide throat, and
strong nervous sys-
rule at less than twenty-five cents a pound? tem, while one with long, narrow,
contracted
                                             skull, and puny, abruptly bent
horns, will be
We have at present in the loyal states twenty- characterized by weakness,
wildness and slow-
five millions of sheep, and we believe that this ness to fatten."



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