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the benefit of the grass, about two bushels of salt 

 per acre Is sown on the wheat in the fall. Mr. S. 

 is satisfied that salt has an excellent effect on the 

 grass, and especially in insuring a good ** take." 



About eight acres of white sugar beets are raised 

 every year. They 'do not yield se> well as mangel 

 svurzel, but are more nutritious, affording richer 

 milk. For ewes with lambs early in the spring 

 they are excellent. 



Mr. Sheldon's herd of Shorthorn cattle, number- 

 ing now sixty head, is unsurpassed in this country, 

 if in England. Look at them as they quietly -crop 

 the rich grass and bask beneath the umbrageous 

 •elms. Every one of them has a pedigree long as 

 ■xa Earl, and quite as illustrious 1 Of Alderneys, . 



especially considering its richness. It has always 

 been a matter of surprise to us that wealthy gen- 

 tlemen in the neighborhood of our large cities, who 

 keep a cow for their own \ise, do not more gene- 

 rally keep an Alderney. 



Mr. Sheldon has a noble flock of thorough-bred 

 South Down sheep. Three years ago he met with 

 a great loss. His sheep were in a barn which took 

 fire, and some hundred and fifty head of the 

 choicest South Down sheep perished in the flames. 

 Since then, Mr. S. has made several importations, 

 and also purchased largely from L. G. Morris and 

 other celebrated breeders, and has now one of the 

 largest and best flocks in America. He is in the 

 habit of purchasing ewes of the common sheep of 



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AN ALDERNEY COW, BRED BT JAMES O. SHELDON, ESQ. 



Mr. S. has a dozen or more beautiful animals. For I the country and crossing them with South Down 

 rich milk nothing equals an Alderney. We had I bucks, and in this way gets excellent lambs ft» the 

 suppesed that they gave but a small quantity, but I butcher. He finds the practice quite profitable. 

 Mr. S. says he has some that give 20 quarts a day. i He regards the South Down as the best of all the 

 This for such small animals is a large quantity, | English sheep for this purpose. 



Shropshire Down Sheep. — The Maine Farmer 

 says Oapt. Bradford, of "Winthrop, Me., has re- 

 ceived three beautiful Shropshire Down sheep 

 from the importation of the late Mr. Winans, of 

 Baltimore. The importation was made through 

 Mr. Sutton, of Maryland, who, " after examining 

 the best flocks of England, made choice of the 

 Shropshires as the best." The editor of the Farmer 

 says, "with the exception of a flock imported by 



Geo. Miller, of Markham, 0. W., we know of no 

 others this side o* the Atlantic." Mr. Lorillard, 

 of New York, imported some most magnificent 

 Shropshire Downs three or four years ago. We 

 believe this was the first importation into this 

 country. Indeed, it is but a very few years since 

 the Shropshire Down sheep attracted any general 

 attention in England. They are now admitted to 

 be a most useful breed of sheep. 



