218 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 



weather. The keener the cold, the more sheep will eat. In the South 

 much would also depend upon the amount of grass obtained. In manj 

 places a light daily foddering would suffice in others, a light foddering 

 placed in the depository racks once in two days would answer the purpose. 

 In the steady cold weather of the North, the shepherd readily learns to de- 

 termine about how much hay will be consumed before the next foddering 

 time. And this is the amount which should, as near as may be, be regu- 

 larly fed. In feeding grain or roots there is no difficulty in preserving en- 

 tire regularity, and it is vastly more important than in feeding hay. Of 

 the latter a sheep will not overeat and surfeit itself. Of the former it wilL, 

 And if not fed grain to the point of surfeiting, but still over-plenteously, 

 it will expect a like amount at the next feeding, and failing to receive it, 

 will pine for it and manifest uneasiness. The effect of such irregularity 

 on the stomach and system of any animal is bad and the sheep suffers 

 more from it than any other animal. I would much rather that my flock 

 receive no grain at all, than that they receive it without regard to regular- 

 ity in the amount. The shepherd should be required to measure out the 

 grain to sheep in alHnstances instead of guessing it out and to measure 

 it to each separate flock. 



SALT. Sheep undoubtedly require salt in winter. Some salt their hay 

 when it is stored in the barn or stack. This is objectionable, as you thus 

 constitute yourself the judge, or controller in a matter, where the appetite 

 of the sheep is a much safer guide. It may be left accessible to them in 

 the salt-box (fig. 28) as in summer, or it is an excellent plan to give them an 

 occasional feed of brined hay or straw. This last is done in warm thaw- 

 ing weather, when their appetite is poor, and thus serves a double purpose. 

 With a wisp of straw sprinkle a thin layer of straw with brine then an- 

 other layer of straw and another sprinkling, and so on. Let this lie until 

 the next day, for the brine to be absorbed by the straw, and then feed it to 

 all the grazing animals on the farm which need salting. 



WATER. Unless sheep have access to succulent food or clean snow, 

 water is indispensable. Constant access to a brook or spring is best, but 

 in default of this, they should be watered, at least once a day, in some other 

 way. 



THE BEST THINGS TO IMPORT ARE BIPEDS, 



OH two-legged animals, for they not only consume largely of the products of the cotton-grower, the wool- 

 grower, and the iron-master, (and always in proportion to their wages,) hut by their labour, they produce 

 and add largely to the elements of the best sort of commerce and free-trade commerce and free-trade 

 among ourselves. We therefore rejoice much more when we see amounts of the importation of men and 

 women, than of cattle and sheep. There is no better sign of tLe prosperity of a country than when you 

 see men flocking into it from all parts of the world; and it the labour of the country had been steadily 

 protected, as it was some years since, we should by this tim3 bar<> imported annually, more by a million, 

 than we now do. Talk of military glory! the glory of success in the work of " blood and slaughter I" 

 there is no glory to be compared with that administration of the affairs of a country, which wins for it 

 the regard and admiration of the world, and makes of it a great magnet, attracting the talents, the 

 eapital, and the labour of men of all nations. One year of such bloodless and beneficent glory is worth 

 n eternity of fame, won by arms and by conquest. 



Immigration, says a New York paper, for the last month has been quite large, yet we see that, as com- 

 pared with the same seven months of last year, instead of going on rapidly augmenting, as it weuld do 

 under a common-sense (not party) system, it had actually fallen off. The Journal of Commerce gives 

 it as 34,810 souls. Of the whole number 16,169 were from Ireland, 8449 from Germany, 4788 from Eng- 

 land, and 1386 from Scotland. The following table will show the immigration at New York for the yean 

 1849 and 1850, up to the 1st of August : 



Year 1848. Year 1S5C 



January 3,258 . 13,154 



February 8.8 '9 . 3,206 



March ' 9,630 . 5,569 



April 19,934 14,627 



Immigration leu tk t rear 



Year 18 18. Year 185C. 



May 37,406 '. 42,840 



Jun 28,985 . 11.763 



July 31,634 . 34.810 



Total . . 144,656 . 125,975 



