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FEMALE CASBMGRR GOAT. 



skill and genius the raw material of native produc- 

 tion, by which he may not only rival but surpass 

 the costly fabrics of the East, which command 

 such extraordinary prices in all the great cities of 

 the civilized world." 



"VTe annex a portrait of a pair of these goats im- 

 ported by Dr. Davis. The male weighed one hun- 

 dred and fifty-five pounds, and sheared annually 

 seven pounds of wool or hair. The ewes shear 

 from three to four pounds. The wool is said to 

 be worth $6.00 or $8.00 per pound. The price of 

 shawls made from it are worth from $700 to 

 $1500. The goats will live on weeds, briars, and 

 other coarse herbage, and thrive in places where 

 sheep could not be kept to advimtage. They 

 are not liable to the "diseases which affect sheep, 

 and are well able to protect themselves from 

 dogs. 



Save Youe Poultry Dttng. — Ay! but who 

 does it? There are many who do; but many, 

 many more, who do not. It is worth thrice 

 what your stable manure is. Keep always a 

 little earth mixed with it. This earth wants to 

 be moist, so as to take up the ammonia, which is 

 very strong, uniting with the humic acid of the 

 ground. For any choice garden plot, this is the 

 manure ^ou want. — VaU&n Farmer, 



HOW MANY TIMES SHALL WE PLOW FBS WHEAT? 



OuE own opinion is that we plow either too lit- 

 tle or too much for wheat. If the land is of a 

 heavy, clayey character, we can not well dispense 

 with the summer fallow. In this case, the prac- 

 tice with most farmers is to plow too little. The 

 land is broken up in June or July, and harrowed 

 and cultivated, and just before sowing it is plowed 

 again. This is called a " summer fallow," but it does 

 not deserve the name. An old-fashioned English 

 summer fallow was plowed in the fall, again in the 

 spring, and again in midsummer, and once more 

 before seeding. Indeed, we have known many in- 

 stances where the land received Jive plowings and 

 any number of harrowings, rolling, &c. In this 

 climate, where the frosts of winter and the heats 

 of summer help materially to pulverize the soil, so 

 much plowing is not necessary; but merely to 

 plow twice is to run to the opposite extreme. On 

 such land as we are alluding to, three plowings are 

 necessary to clean the land thoroughly and get it 

 into good tilth. 



On the other hand, there is a class of light, 

 loamy wheat soils that do noi, necessarily, require 

 more than one plowing. The practice of many 

 good farmers in this section is to break up the 

 clover sod in July, and keep down the weeds after- 

 ^ward t>j harrowing and cultivatingj, and then sow 



