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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



the south, the system must be a more profitable one 

 iu the less congenial regions of the north. There are 

 no doubt many minor objections connected with this 

 part of our subject — objections which our present 

 limits will not allow us to discuss in detail, and there- 

 fore we shall briefly dispose of them in toto, in a con- 

 cluding sentence, thus : The sheep is more dependent 



practiced, that is no reason why success may not ul- 

 timately crown her labors in the most forbidding dis- 

 tricts ; for in these we can point out thousands of 

 acres capable of producing furze in abundance, from 

 which art can easily return ten times the amount of 

 matter Nature now does from her scanty herbage. — 

 London Agricultural Gazette. 



FARM WIKD-MILL. 



upon man, and hence on artificial systems, than any 

 of the other domestic animals, find is certainly not 

 the less ungrateful for them ; while, on the other 

 hand, art has done less for it than for either the horse, 

 ox or swine, the majority of its family being still 

 treated on the natural system ; and however numer- 

 ous may be the obstacles which art has to triumph 

 over before house-feeding in boxes can be successfully 



WIND-MILL FOR RAISING WATER. 



So much interest has been felt the past season in 

 the use of means to avert the consequences of severe 

 and long-protracted drouths, that we have procured 

 an engraving of a wind-mill, which appears to be 

 firmly and strongly made, simple in construction, and 

 not liable to get out of repair. The letters in the 



