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of June last. The Sheep were fed one half of the time 1-2 

 bushel of corn, and the other half, 5 bundles of oats per hun- 

 dred, besides hay and straw. The Ewes are two years old and 

 over. 



I also enter a Buck, over two years old, wintered in like man- 

 ner as the Ewes, and shorn on the 31st of May last. All the 

 above Sheep were washed on Wednesday, May 24. 



T. C. DOUSMAN. 



Waterville, May 29, 1854. 



A. p. Weston's statement. 



One Buck, French Merino; ten Ewes, half French and half 

 Spanish ; ten Lambs, three-fourths French, one-fourth Spanish. 

 My Sheep were wintered upon corn stalks and oat straw, and 

 oats in the sheaf, amounting to one-half bushel per head. Lost 

 none the last year. Losses on Lambs, ten per cent. Aver- 

 age of wool per head on Ewes that raised Lambs, 5 pounds. 

 Cost of keeping per head, 85 cents per year. 



A. P. Weston. 



Wateeford, Kacine Co., May 30, 1854. 



REPORTS 



FEOM COUNTY AGRICULTUEAL SOCIETIES 



FOR 1854. 



Columbia and Fond du Lac Counties apjjear to be all whose 

 Societies sent in reports for 1854. At first we thought it not 

 advisable to publish so small a show under this head, but finally 

 concluded that counties which were prompt, though few, ought 

 not to suffer for the negligence and stupidity of others. 



