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Weight op Lkicester Lambs. — I saw an article in the August number of the Fanner, relative to 

 good sized lambs, whioli ind'iced me to present you with the following. I also have some weighty 

 lambs, without extra keep. One (from a yearling ewe) four months and one week old, weighs 85 

 lbs. Also, one whieli ou the morning after V>irth weighed 14 lbs. ; when four weeks old, 75 lbs. ; 

 and now, (August 26,) four months old, weighs 116 lbs. Can you beat thifi? They are of the Lei- 

 cester bree<i James M. Qu.vle. — Middlcbury, Wyoming Co., iV". Y. 



To Kill Crows. — In the winter, or towards spring, the crows are generally very plentiful. Take 

 Hie entrails of hogs or sheep, or a dead carcass of any kind, and place it at a proper distance behind 

 the barn, or other out-building. Then take a two inch augur and bore a hole through some conve- 

 nient spot, the proper height, and remain inside after they frequent it. Then take a good fowling- 

 piece, well loaded, and when the black gents assemble to dine, point tlie muzzle of your gun tlirough 

 tlie port-hole, take a dead level at the thickest part of the assembly, and let go, and the carnage will 

 be desperate. This is no theory ; it is practical experience. I think nothing of killing twenty at 

 four shots with a small gun. I have often done it, and had crows in the spring by the bushel. If 

 you want them for scare-crows, take out the insidesand thrown in a handful of salt to preserve them, 

 and you can have crows to hang over the fields in the spring in any quantity; and depend upon it, 

 they are perfectly horrified at the sight, and have no idea of entering premises where their black 

 brethren are so uncivilly dealt with. H. H. — Binbrook, C. W. 



Wool Growing in Micthgan, &c. — An article in the last Farmer, taken from the census of 1850, docs 

 not show the present state of things ; still it is interesting to wool-growera Sheep and wool have 

 increased rapidly the past two years, since the census of 1850 was taken. We have now in Michigan 

 over 1,000,000 of sheep, and they cut more wool per head now than the census indicates. My 

 opinion is, that Michigan wool this season averaged 35 cents. Our wool is clean, light, and profit- 

 able for manufacturei-s ; and they are anxious to* secure the wool as soon as it is clipped. We don't 

 oil our sheep, to make the avooI grow, and add one quarter to the weight of the fleece. I never 

 purchased any eastern sheep ; my flock were principally bred on my farm, and all cut good fleeces. 

 Some of my yearling ewes cut over six pounds river-washed wool I sold my last spring's clip for, 

 40 cents per pound, before removing it off the premises. 



According to the United States Economist, published weekly by Kittle &, More, Broadway, N. Y., 

 at $3 per annum, there are 52,422, 777 pounds of wool raised in the United States. The manufac- 

 turers work up 70,862,829 pounds. The supply and growth in 1850 was within a fraction of the 

 quantity used. In the following year, 1851, the importations were increased to 32,537,071 pounds 

 — nearly double that of any previous year — and the manufacturers paid $1,200,000 duty ou the 

 wool imported. The duty is 30 per cent. A Subscriber. — Ann Arbor, Mich. 



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Farming in Indlvna. — Being a Western New York man, and somewhat acquainted with the mode 

 of farming and the productions of the soil there, and now spending a few weeks in this State, I will, 

 with your permission, give your numerous readers something of an idea of what can be done in 

 Indiana. 



A day or two since, I called on Mr. Hiram Baoon, who, if I mistake not, is one of your subscri- 

 l)ers, and after consummating our business, the conversation turned to agriculture, when I drew from 

 him the following facts: Mr. B. is a native of Maiisachusetts, came to this State in 1822, and located 

 in Washington township, Marion county, upon the same farm upon which he now resides. His resi- 

 dent farm contains 350 acres, two hundred under cultivation, upon which he has six work horses, 

 twenty-five milch cows, one hundred hogs, twenty-five head of young cattle, and sixty sheep ; and 

 during the past year he produced 1,650 bushels of wheat from 70 acres, 4,000 bushels of coin from 

 70 acres, 600 bushels of Ijarley from 30 acres, and 300 bushels of oats from 7 acres. The value of 

 wheat produced was $825 ; cash received for pork, $318 ; value of corn produced, $800 ; barley, 

 $375; oats, $45; butter and cheese, $500; calves, $50; receipts of orchard, $100; — making the 



