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facturers of artificial manures for certain crops. This is 

 science in agriculture. 



The professors of agricultural chemistry are all the time ex- 

 perimenting for the advancement of husbandry. They liave 

 large salaries from the government to aid them in carrying 

 out their plans. They have the assistance and co-operation 

 of the masses of agriculturists, throughout Europe. 



Stock. — This system of farming is well arranged for their 

 purposes — the turnips for the winter and the clover for the 

 summer fattening of their stock. By this arrangement a 

 ■continuous round is formed, by which the farmer can select 

 the fattest of his stock every two weeks for the market. 



They have live stock markets established at all the prin- 

 cipal places every two weeks, at which the farmer generally 

 sells from twenty to fifty sheep, according to the size of his 

 flock, and he buys as many more lean ones to take back to 

 replace those he has sold. 



In Yorkshire, the most common breeds of sheep are the 

 Leicesters and Cotswolds, tlie latter being the favorites 

 among the majority of the farmers ; but many other breeds 

 are raised in other parts of the country, according to the 

 pasturage and other circumstances attending them. 



It is not uncommon to see whole flocks at two years old 

 that will dress twenty-five or tliirty pounds to the quarter. 



I notice a very great improvement in the cattle, compared 

 to wluit they were thirty years ago. They are nearly all 

 of them high grade Durliams, so near full blooded that a 

 person would Iiave to be a very good judge to discover that 

 they were not full bloods. 



