4B6 now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



without dogs ; iu fact, without tliis docile animal, the pastoral 

 life would be a mere blank. It would require more hands to 

 manage a flock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them 

 into houses and folds, and drive them to market than tlie profit 

 of tlic whole flocks would be capable of maintaining. 



"Although the sheep husbandry of the United States differs 

 materially in many particulars from that of the Highlands of 

 Scotland, 'the colley is pretty extensively diffused in this 

 oxjuntry, and is valued very highly by the farmer, shepherd, or 

 drover. In a communication to the American Agriculturist, 

 Mr. T. C. Peters, of Darien, New York, says : — ' I think the 

 shepherd dog the most valuable of his species, especially for tbe 

 farmer. Our dog Jack, a thoroughbred Scotch colley, has 

 been worth one hundred dollars a year in managing our small 

 flock of sheep, usually about seven hundred iu number. He 

 has saved us more than that in time in running after them. 

 After sheep have been once broken in by and become used to 

 the dog, it is but little trouble to manage them ; one man and 

 the dog will do more than five men in driving, yarding, etc. 

 Let any man once possess a good dog, he will never do without 

 one again. The sagacity of the shepherd's dog is wonderful, 

 and if T h.ad not seen so much myself, I could scarcely credit all 

 I read about them.' 



•'The English sheep dog, or drover's dog, is a tailless animal, 

 larger, coarser, and stronger than the cclley. It is very easily 

 trained, and seems especially adapted for working among cattle, 

 keeping the herd from straggling when on the prairie or the 

 road to market, and acting as an aid to the farmer in the man- 

 agement of his flocks and herds." 



We consider it always well to allow the ewe to suckle the 

 pups. 



In training these dogs for service they should be taught to 



