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FEMALE CASHMERE GOAT. 



The fleeces of the matured bucks weigh from six 

 to seven pounds. Ewes yield fi'om three to four 

 pounds. The flesh of the crosses is superior to 

 most mutton, tender and delicious, making them a 

 desirable acquisition to our food producing animals. 



The ease with which they are kept, living as they 

 do on weeds, briers, browse, and other coarse her- 

 bage, fits them for many portions of our country 

 where sheep could not be sustained to advantage j 

 whilst their ability and disposition to defend them, 

 selves from the attacks of dogs, evidence a value 

 peculiar to this race of animals. 



They are free from all diseases to which sheep 

 are liable, hardy and prolific ; and experience has 

 proven that they readily adapt themselves to all 

 portions of the United States. 



Atlanta, Georgia. Richakd Peters. 



Appropriate Dress.— A lady correspondent of 

 the Prairie Farmer, closes a very sensible and live- 

 ly description of the Mississippi Valley Fair, held 

 at St. Louis, with the following remarks : 



"We wish, too, that ladies could learn that rich 

 silks, delicate bonnets, fine embroideries, and ex- 

 pensive shawls, are out of place at a Fair Ground ; 

 and particularly disgusting are skirts, trailing three 



inches in the dirt, wiping up tobacco spittle, filth 

 and dust in their costly folds. Wisdom will come 

 by experience, and those who lost veils, breast-pins, 

 watches &nd purses, will not lose them in fifty- 

 seven." 



Cherry Stones. — J. C. Holmes, after stating 

 the well known fact that cherry pits must be buried 

 while yet fresh, said that he planted them at once, 

 spreading tan-bark over them if the season v/as dry. 

 The follow ing spring they came up through the tan- 

 bark, and do much better than if planted in spring. 

 To which we may add, that if cherries are planted 

 in the autumn, with an earth covering merely, a se- 

 rious difficulty often occurs, in the hard crust 

 formed on the surface, through which the young 

 cherry plants find it sometimes impossible to pene- 

 trate. The tan-bark obviates that difficulty — finely 

 pulverized stable manure, and perhaps ])eat or leaf- 

 mould, would do the same. — Country Gentleman. 



Birds. — The editor of the Canada Farmer's 

 Journal says, that, aside from the invaluable ser- 

 vice of birds in keeping injurious insects in check, 

 they amply compensate the farmer for their share 

 of his grain and small fruits, by eating the seeds of 

 weeds that are allowed to mature, and that those 

 sportsmen who shoot the birds in his fields, are en- 

 titled to the same respect as is due to those who 

 rob his hen-roosts. 



