't^J)2. a bint for the Bee, i^I 



an expedient that succeeded with me perfectly well. I 

 sent a person every day to prune twenty elm trees, and 

 leave the branches scaltered •<! the way* where my (hcep 

 were to pafs. These ftieep, to the number of 550 

 made an abundant repast on the leaves, and then the 

 branches vvere bound up into fagots. My flieep had na 

 other houriftiment till the harvest was g t in. I'he elms 

 have suffered nothing j as I took care they ftiould be pro<- 

 perly pruned. I also, in the months of September and 

 October, pruned my willows and poplars, all the branches 

 of which I preserved in a dry state •■, and this food was of 

 great use^to mc during the winter for my (heep. I can af- 

 firm that those which were not intended for the butcher, 

 lived upon nothing else but these branches. 



" 1 also fattened 300 (heep with potatoes and cabbages, 

 for which I got a very good price." 



I have long ago remarked, that Iheep can be easily and 

 well sustained during a storm of snow in winter, upon 

 branches of fir trees, thus cut down daily, and given to 

 them. Firs can be reared almost on every ihcep farm, 

 without difficulty ; and if plantations for this purpose were 

 duly made, and carefully thus applied, many thousand 

 hjead of flieep might be annually saved, that at present in- 

 evitably perifli. Yet 1 never heard of a plantation that 

 bad been made for that purpose ; and very few that had 

 ever been applied in that way at any time. The flieep 

 that are thus lost may be said to be sacrificed by igno- 

 rance on the altar of pride. 



A HINT FOR THE BEE. 

 Children are fond of listening to stories. Might not 

 those who are about them, while curiosity is all awake, 

 and the memory retentive, avail themselves of this cir- 

 cumstance, to introduce the naost interesting parts and 

 pafsages of real history, instead of ghosts and hobgoblins ? 



