Mutton Chops

Why not keep such a good flock that breeders inay be sold at long priees? Does it cost any more ior f eed ? A ice, soft fleece for tbe floor. Can a.ny rug be pleasanter to step outo on getting out oí bed ? Sell a good sneep when you get a good customer and then make better oaies for the next buyer. AYhat sheepimem need in tlie United ed States : It is not breeds but intelligent appreciation of purposes, adaptatioms, management and meth■ads. No lack of energy, soil or means, such as food supplies, ior In these no natlon lias better. The farmers of the United States liave been, and are yet, importing the best sneep of the mutton broeds all these years because they lacked the j knowledge and conviction to raise theiu When lambs fa il to come in at j night full and sausy, and begin tu go out in the mornlng limp anJ ry, you may depend on it that tiemble is brewing, and, unless you -'get a move on you," there will be lots of [ oandidates (or "the boncyard" beiore the spring is gono. Don't undervalue chestnuts and acoms as food for esheep. A floek haviiLg tbe run of such woods in bearing ■will get almost as lat as cornfed aninnals, and winter fully as well. A flofk carefully cleaned of ticks j s-liuulil be protected froni infested fleeces. Additions to the flock shpuld be put through the same thorough discipline beiore bting given the sa-me quarters'. Tobacco ? Yes, It is a good thing -in its place. ' A strong solutiou made by steeping sterns, -vill kill ticks. A week later a second dipping will be necessary to destroy any that hatch alter the first bath. One of the twins belonging to a ewe got separated from the flock at two days' old and was gone so long its niother would not own it. AVhat to do was a mystery. We had never liad a parallel case., However, we nursed it for a day or two on new niilk, when another ewe lost her only lamb and we got her to adopt the abandoned one. Sometimes a dam will yeaai dead lambs, when she can be made to mirse one of twins by separating her froin the mother of the pair long enougïi for the adoption to become a perfect one. In this W.ay the lambs will both gvow faster, amd there i-s no danger of caked udder and other troubles resulting to the bereaved ewe.