1868. 



WEW ENGLAM) FAJRMER. 



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acconiplished a hundred. Her dam and gran- 

 dam were mares of the same general type ; 

 therefore it will be seen that Figaro's qualities 

 are hereditary, rather than accidental. His 

 colts and fillies possess in a marked degree the 

 characteristics of the thoroughbred, ^nd while 

 they are making elegant carriage horses and 

 fine roadsters, they are also giving a very flat- 

 tering promise for the turf. He is proving 

 himself of incalcuable benefit to the- breeders 

 of New England. 



MUTTON SHEEP. 



An English correspondent of the Country 

 Gentleman, after alluding to the fact that from 

 six to eight thousand "hoggets," — yearling 

 sheep — are sold every Saturday at Norwich 

 market, at from $12 to $14.50 per head, re- 

 marks that these sheep are nearly all what is 

 called half bred, i. e., from some kind of dark- 

 faced Down ewe, by a Lincoln, Leicester or 

 Cotswold ram, and for early maturity and the 

 profitable production of excellent mutton, are 

 hard to beat. Alluding to an article he had 

 seen by an American writer in which the Cots- 

 wold was recommended as the breed for our 

 farmers to take up, he says : — 



I am of opinion that the writer is a little mis- 

 taken in his deducrions, for in addition to the fact, 

 that by cross-l>reeding we attain not only early 

 maturity, but a far greater disposition and aptitude 

 to fatten than is found in any pure breed, the 

 Cotswold, in common with every other white- 

 f;iced, long-wooled sheep, carries a large amount 

 of fat in proportion to its lean meat — the meat is 

 coarse in the "grain.'" Whereas, in tlie South- 

 Down, and eveiy other dark-faced, short-wooled 

 breed, these characteristics are exactly reversed. 

 I venture to predict that .if the great American 

 people is to be "educated up" to a taste for mutton, 

 it will be of the Down, or half-breed sort. Proba- 

 bly the best cross of all is that between the South- 

 Down ewe and Leicester, Cotswold or other long- 

 wooled ram. 



Short-horns for Burlington, Vt. — Two 



weeks since we noticed the purchase of several 



fine animals by F. M. Van Sicklen and J. A. 



Shedd of this town. We see by the Country 



Gentleman that Mr. Shedd has purchased 



of Hon. A. B. Conger, Waldberg, N. Y., the 



following additional animals : — 



Mazurka 8th and Constance 3d, both bred by the 

 late R. A. Alexander, and got by his prize bull 

 Albion; Queen of Diamonds, bred by Samuel 

 Thorne, and got by 2d Grand Duke (12981,) out of 

 imported Darlington 6th; Lelia, bred by the late 

 F. M. Rotch, and got by imported Grand Duke of 

 Oxford ; also, Constantia and Constantia 2,d, bred 

 by himself, both out of Constantia 3d, the first got 

 by Buttercup 2d, son of 2d Grand Duke, and the 

 second by Udora's son of Grand Turk (12969). 



From the New York Ledger. 

 OUT WEST. 



BY ETHED LYNN, 



Joe Hilton sat in his ea-'y chair, 



Nothing tie et emed to see, 

 Though a liiUe woman's tiny hand 



Laj retting on his kiiee. 

 Straight in the fire his giance was bent, 



Uijscorcliid by its sullen glow, 

 Till a wouiau's question broke his dream 



With, "What are you tliinking, Joe?" 



Back from the border land he came. 



Back from tile prairie swtll ; 

 Back. Irom the rustling fields of corn, 



Back to his black-roued Nell. 

 "Thinbi g, my tiny, quiet wife? 



Where 1 shall build my nest; 

 For when the maple flushes red, 



We are going, aear, 'Out West.' 



"Goin? where men can win a home, 



Where the corn is glad to grow; 

 Where the reaper's cradle turns lo gold, 



And the winds untainted blow. 

 Going where gleams of silver ehine 



On the rugged mountain's crest, 

 And a farm awaits the master's band — 



Are you glad we are going west ?" 



Over the sombre dress she wore 



Hot 1 ear * went rolling down, 

 Though she tried to wipe them off nnseen, 



Fearing Joe's troubled frown. 

 "Speak, Nelly, why do I see those tears ?" 



fcoftly she bent her head— 

 "Mother— the sea— and baby's grave !" 



Were tbe only words she said. ' 



Five years had passed, as years will go, 



Dying as soon as born. 

 Ana Farmer Joe was passing rich. 



In acres, flocks and corn. 

 And Nell ? poor Nell 1 Joe told a friend. 



In confileiice, she was not well; 

 The friend had heard it long ago. 



Had caught the echo of a knell. 



All knew, save Joe, the prairie rose 



Would bloom above her head; 

 jfie thought the spring would tint her cheek, 



With its-weli remembered red; 

 He could not think, (how could a man?) 



That heart-aches ever kill. 

 Nor know how fever craved a draught 



From "the spring beyond the hill." 



He knew at last, one quiet hour. 



When over the tree'ess plain 

 The sun shot level thafu of light 



4thwart the day just slain. 

 Poor Nell awoke from troubled sleep, 



And talked in a wandering way, 

 Of tlie little hroob, of the baby's graie, 



And the flowers that bloomed in May. 



Of the dim, old woods, so calm and cool. 



Of the sea which she lovt d so well ; 

 While Joe stood holding fast her hand, 



With a sorrow no words could tell. 

 "Oh, tiny Nelly, oh darling olc, 



Come back, little one, to me; 

 I did not know, I could not tell," 



Too late — 



She had found the sea. 



Sales of Improved Stock. — We leam 

 by the Country Gentleman that Mr. Joseph 

 A. Harwood, Littleton, Mass., has sold to 

 Mr. C. C.Pierce, East Clarendon, Vt., Cava- 

 lier, 6526, a fine Short-horn, eighteen months 

 old, bred by Mr. Harwood. He was got by 

 Matadore, 5002, out of Yellow Rose, by Ma- 

 maluke, 3114. 



