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SHEEP RAISING. 
Livingston county, Iilinois—Our first year’s experience in keeping sheep, 
dating from August, 1865: 
Dr. 
Oash’ paid for eighty-three sheep. se. =>. Saree eee. a a $277 65 
Seven pons of hay. 2. 52 ARS. PE et ee 35 00 
One hundred twenty-five bushels of oats.............--- 18 75 
Sree rmines (ED CUSCS o> 2 vein ite rfelaein celine i ele El a an 2 20 00 
Meee te op ae eh = of - o's sen eel cg 27.16 
$379 16 
Cr. 
nsty-ye Jamie Rape --..}-' 0. cinia- ap Sajraleln gees gate ta 70 00 
Woe su0moundaat 48 cents: . 32. cine > o— 4? oe nt geo 192 00 
IPCC ON ala Sie Bale ar cin a,c ann ange 5 ee ee etme e 3 00 
Three'sheep consumed by family...:.-.... 22... 52. 12 00° 
Eighty sheep on hand at $3 50 per head..............-- 280 00 
557 00 
Meh promt Pe POMIE Be Sed Se 177 84 
We prefer a good grade Merino to either Cotswold, Southdown, or Liecester. 
BEST MODES OF CULTURE. 
Oceana county, Michigan.—In looking over agricultural papers and reports 
I am sometimes surprised that a very natural and efficient mode of culture of 
some of our most common productions is not recommended. I have only a 
garden here, and the land is light-driftine sand, and not favorable to experi- 
menting, but in the southern part of our State I have marked the results of 
different modes of cultivation. To cut off the seed end of potatoes and plant 
the stem end is as natural as to serve corn so, and the result is very advania- 
geous; also with cucumbers, squashes, or anything from which we save the 
seed, the stem end is best. I find in planting peas, that by covering them six 
or eight inches deep they will continue to blossom and bear as long as we want 
green peas. In transplanting trees, setting them to the same point of the com- 
pass as occupied before removal makes a striking difference in the growth. So 
on through the whole course; to observe nature’s laws is a great advantage. 
POULTRY DISEASE. 
Washington, Iowa.—There is a disease prevalent here among our poultry 
which I have not seen noticed in any agricultural journals. It goes by the name 
of cholera in this vicinity. Often the first evidence we have of the existence of 
the disease is in finding chickens lying dead in the morning where they had 
fallen from their roost. My turkeys and chickens have just got through with it. 
I watched the symptoms closely. The eyes look dull and heavy, and the small 
feathers on the top of the head ruffle up and appear to stand on end. The sick 
huddle closely together. When the fever comes on they pant considerably and 
want water. Their dung is quite soft, and about two-thirds of it as white as 
chalk, the remainder being a bright green. They usually die in from twenty- 
four to forty-eight hours; sometimes they lose the power of moving when they 
live longer. I never knew one to recover. Geese,and turkeys have it as badly 
as chickens. When a flock is attacked about two-thirds usually die. The dis- 
ease started soon after the hog cholera prevailed here. If any of your readers 
can suggest a remedy we should be pleased to hear from them through the 
Monthly Report. Horses have also had a similar complaint, which has been 
