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concise. What has been said will, as we believe, enable any 

 one sucessfuily to raise this plant, and prepare it tor the 

 Di*-r; especially with the aid of a little experience in the 

 culture and process of preparation. 



WOLVES. For the method of preventing their killing 

 Sheep, see SHEEP. 



Wolves are easily caught in traps, and, as many frontier 

 towns are in the habit of offering considerable premiums 

 for every Wolf that may be killed, we will suggest a me- 

 thod of destroying them, which it is believed would be 

 successful. 



Build a close board-pen out in the wilderness, where the 

 Wolves most frequent, so high that they cannot get over \\ ; 

 let it be about twenty feet square; leave a hole in each side 

 of it just large enough for a Wolf to thrust his head into; 

 put three or four Sheep inlo the pen and feed them there; 

 Take pieces of tainted meat and drag them along on the 

 ground, off lor miles, in different directions from t ( ne pen. 

 The Wolves coming across the scents made by these trails 

 will follow them to the pen, and when there they will 

 slick their heads through the holes to get at the Sheep. 

 Let the Sheep be prevented from coming too close to these 

 holes. 



All then that is further to be done is to contrive traps, 

 which, as they run their heads through the holes, will 

 either kill them, hang them, or otherwise hold them fast 

 till they can be killed or taken ; and the different methods 

 of doing this, any Hunter of common ingenuity can easily 

 contrive for himself. 



This plan would be equally useful where the Farmer folds 

 his Sheep every night, to keep off the Wolves. 



WOODHOUSE, Every Farmer should provide himself 

 with this building 5 and into this let him every Winter store 

 away wood sufficient for the ensuing year, so that he may 

 have a constant supply of dry fuel. Any kind of wood, even 

 that which is much decayed, will burn well when dry; and 

 half of any given quantity of dry wood will give more heat 

 than the whole where it is wet and green; so that there is a 

 considerable saving of wood in having it dry, to say nothing 

 of the greater pleasure and convenience it affords. 



A house twenty feet square and ten feet high will hold 

 fifty cords of wood; but if the Farmer will be at the pains 

 to have his rooms warmed, and his culinary business per- 

 formed, in the most approved and economical manner, he 

 will find the one- half of this yearly quantity of wood suffi- 

 cient for all his purposes ; and thus make a saving in this 



