AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM 2i& 



] i] Prmniams given hy Government. Some of the.. 

 Siatt: Governments have already adopted tliis measure 



[ k\ A perfect breed of Domestic Animals. Our breeds 

 of Domestic Animals are sufficiently perfect for their va- 

 rious uses-r-Shcep excepted. Horses liavc arrived at jj 

 peculiar degree of perfectio:!, and impoi-tations from Eng- 

 land, have within a few years been immense.-— For use- 

 ful purposes, we want no more, yet it is truly inelancho- 

 ly, to see how few of these imported animals, have con- 

 duced to the benefit of rural employments. Few of the 

 stock of Ilig'hfiyei', or Eclipse have descended from 

 their dignity so far as to minister to the duties of Agri- 

 culture The patient animal who draws the Plough, is a 

 better servant of the Republic, than the gallant courser 

 who wins the lace. That blooded Horses have their me- 

 rits, is most true, but unfortunately these merits are much 

 obscured, by being more devoted to the pursuits of plea- 

 sure, thiui the practice 01 industry. — The wealthy and 

 careless may indulge in the delights of the Turf, but they 

 should remember, that the enjoyment of their favorite 

 pleasures, gives nothing to virtue and industry^ but is ra,' 

 ther an encouragement to idleness and vice, 



[Z] As {otiicfcod. The food proper for sheep, is fo 

 be found in all lauds, very rich and very wet ones except- 

 ed. Rank grass purges, and wet grass rots sheep. The 

 grass of hills is most preferable. Old lands which have 

 put up white clover, arc particularly healthful for this 

 delicate animal, but to ail pastures, whether high or low, 

 some portion oi'wood sliouid be att iciied. This in Sum- 

 mer serves as a protection from the-jVIej'idian heat, and 

 in winter sereens them from driving snows. In Spring, 

 sheep should be driven lo woods, where they browse up- 

 on the young twigs and buds, ^^bieh operate as an aperi- 

 ent medicuic afttr ihe long feeding on uvy provender. 



Sheep should net be lept in close sheds. Nothing in- 

 jures sheep luui e than continement. They seem by 

 nature iiee, and are so Domestic as to need little controul. 

 The close mephitic atmosphere, generated in hot stables 



