THE GENESEE FARIIER. 



FEiULE CASHMERE GOAT. 



EWE CASHlilEilE GOAT. 



Last month we gave a portrait of a Buck Cash- 

 mere Goat, with a sliort history and description of 

 these celebrated animals. We have great pleasure 

 in presenting our readers this month, with a beauti- 

 ful engraving of a Ewe Cashmere (jruat. 8he is the 

 property of Col. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga. 

 Live weight 102 lbs.; weight of yearly fleece 4| lbs. 

 We hardly dare to hope that these animals will suc- 

 ceed so well in our country that Cashmere shawls will 

 be as cheap and common as woolen ones are at pres- 

 ent, but we have, nevertheless, great e.\'pectation that 

 they will prove well adapted to our climate, and a 

 decided acquisition in many parts of the country. 



Look to Your Animals. — Most of your readers, 

 I presume, are aware that all animals require, other 

 things being equal, more food in cold weather than is 

 necessary to keep them in the same condition during 

 more moderate winter weather. Therefore, to insure 

 the comfort of our animals, and save fodder, it be- 

 comes imperative (if not already done,) to look to 

 the stables and see that there are no crevices through 

 which the snow and chilling winds will drive, to the 

 great annoyance of the animals it may pretend to 

 shelter. They should have plenty of clean litter, 

 which will help to guard against the cold arising from 

 want of banking around the buildings. They should 

 also have light and a proper quantity of air; for I 

 hold that liffht and air are as necessary for animated 

 as for vegetable nature. They should not be admit- 

 ted, howe er, through holes or cracks, but by prop- 

 erly prepared windows and ventilators. 



D.— Gates. 



The Tii.LER of His Own Land. — ^The man who 

 stands upon his own soil, who feels that by the laws 

 of the land in which he lives — by the laws of civil- 

 ized nations — he is the rightful and e.\clui;ive owner 

 of the land which he tills, is by the constitution of 

 our nature under a vdio!e>ome influence not easily 

 imbibed from any other source. He feels — other 

 tilings being equal — more strongly than another, the 

 character of a man as the lord of an inanimate world. 

 Of this great and wonderful sphere, which, fat^hioned 

 by the hand of God, and upheld by flis power, is 

 rolling through the heavens, a part is his — his from 

 the centre to the sky. It is the space on which the 

 generation before him moved in its round of duties, 

 and he feels himself connected by a visible link with 

 tho.se who follow him, and to whom he is to transmit 

 a home. Perhaps his farm has come down to him 

 from his fathers. They have gone to their last home; 

 but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of 

 his daily labors. The roof which shelters him was 

 reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some 

 interesting domestic tradition is connected with every 

 inclosure. The favorite fruit tree was phiated by hf>; 

 father's hand. He sported in boyhood beside the 

 brook which still winds through the meadow. — 

 Through the field lies the path to the village school 

 of earlier days. He still hears from his window the 

 voice of the Sabbath bed, which called his fathers to 

 the house of God ; and near at hand is the spot 

 where his parents laid down to rest, and where, when 

 his time has come, he shall be laid by his children. 

 These are the feelinj^s of the owners of the soil. 

 Words cannot paint them; they flow out of the deejy 

 est fountains of the heart; tV.ey are lil'e-springs of a 

 fresh, healthy and generous national chaifwter. 



