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machinery. The Northern and Middle States cannot but 

 see that it will do so. There are many locations south 

 and west of the Delaware, where three sheep at least can 

 be kept as cheap as one can on the confines of the Can- 

 adas. 



Pasturage to almost any extent covers the prairie range, 

 and grass or grain for a short winter's feed, are cut and 

 reaped by machines at a trifling expense. One gentle- 

 man, it is stated, in the vicinity of Buffalo, New-York, 

 having a prairie farm in Illinois of some five hundred 

 acres, purchased two thousand sheep, which he placed 

 upon it, under the care of two faithful shepherds. The 

 sheep were kept without difficulty in the best of health, and 

 the proprietor, as the first fruits of his enterprise, received 

 six thousand pounds of good wool, worth thirty cents per 

 pound. The transportation from Illinois to Buffalo cost 

 about one cent per pound. These facts are mentioned, 

 not to discourage effort, but to prepare the producer of 

 wool to meet the condition of things that must soon take 

 place, in a state of general peace and depression of price 

 of all the staple products. 



DISEASES OF SWINE. 



Swine are subject to a few diseases that are not very 

 easy of remedy. The best preventive is, to keep them 

 clean and cool in summer, and to allow no carrion or filth 

 whatever, to remain in or near their styes. This rule 

 would require to be more attended to in these provinces. 

 The diseases they are most subject to are, pox or mea- 

 sles, blood-striking, staggers, quinsy, indigestion, catarrh, 

 peripneumonia, and inflammation of the lungs, called 



