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NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



Feb. 



large flocks, he says, "there are breeders on 



the Cotswuld hills, who breed from a thousand 

 ewes, following the same rotation, only more 

 extended. Now, tell me why Cotswolds can- 

 not be kept in large flocks. I have seen from 

 700 to 1000 in one field of thirty acres, but 

 they were in separate flocks." 



In this country few farmers have adopted 

 any such systematic course of rotation as that 

 practiced in England. Nor are farmers here 

 in the habit of fencing off small patches of any 

 thing they raise as food for sheep, by which we 

 suppose they would virtually be kept in small 

 lots. Indeed, Mr. S. says that the 1000 sheep 

 that he has seen on thirty acres were in "sep- 

 arate lots." May it not therefore be possible 

 that wliile Cotswold sheep may do well in large 

 flocks in England, as they are managed and 

 fed there, they will not do well in large lots 

 here, as American farmers treat sheep ? 



South Carolina. — A correspondent of the Bural 

 Carolinian says that the Agricultural Society of 

 that State dates its beginning in 1784, and that it 

 was regularly organized August 24th, 1785, by the 

 election of Thomas Hey ward, one of the signers of 

 the Declaration of Independence, as Pi-csidcnt, and 

 Thomas Pinckncy, Vice President. Mr. Jefferson 

 and other distinguished men of the country were 

 enrolled as members. Many of them made com- 

 munication with the view of furthering the objects 

 of the Society, and it is an interesting fact that in 

 1786 Mr. Jelitrson sent some seeds of a grass, found 

 to be very useful in the South of Europe, in the 

 hope that it would prove equally useful here. On 

 the list of its anniversary orators are to be found 

 the names of McDuffle, O'Neall, Poinsett, Ham- 

 mond, Seabrook, Alston, King, W. Elliott, Cal- 

 houn, and others — all now departed. 



IIow MUCH Work a Horse can do. — At 

 a meeting of the British Association at Dub- 

 lin, Mr. Charles Bianconi, of Caspel, read a 

 paper relative to his extensive car estabUsh- 

 ment, after which a gentleman stated that at 

 rickford's, the great Enghsh carrier's, they 

 could not work a horse more than ten miles a 

 day, and wished to hear Mr. Bianconi's opin- 

 ion on the subject. Mr. B. stated he found 

 by experience, he could better work a horse 

 eight miles a day for six days in the week, 

 than six miles a day for seven days. By not 

 working on Sunday, he effected a saving of 1:^ 

 per cent. j\Ir. Bianconi's opinion on this 

 point is of the highest importance, for he has 

 over 900 horses working- sixty-seven convey- 

 ances, which daily travel 4214 miles. It is 

 also tlie result of forty-three years' experience. 

 — Scientijic American. 



From the Detroit Courier of 1831. 

 THE MICHIGAN EMIGRANT'S SONG. 



Come all j'e Yankee Farmers, 



Who'd like to change your lot, 

 Who've spunk enough to travel 



Beyond your native spot, 

 And leave behind the village 



Where Pa' and Ma' do stay, 

 Come follow me and settle 



In Michigania. 



I've hearn of your Penobscot, 



Way down in parts ot Maine, 

 Where timber grows in plenty, 



But darn the bit of grain ; 

 And I have hearn of Quoddy, 



And your Piscataqua, 

 But these ean't hold a candle 



To Michigania. 



And you that talk of Varmount, 



Why what a place is that ? 

 Be sure the gals are pritty, 



And cattle very fat ; 

 But who among her mountains 



'Mid clouds and snow would stay, 

 When he could buy a Prairie 



In Michigania. 



And there's your Massachusetts, 



Once good enough, be sure; 

 But now she's always laying on 



Taxation or manure ; 

 She costs j'ou pecks of trouble, 



But de'il a peek can pay ; 

 While all is scripture measure 



In Michigania. 



Then there's your land o' Blue Laws, 



Wlicre deacons cut the hair, 

 For fear your locks and tenets 



Should not exactly square ; 

 Where beer that works o' Sunday 



A penalty must pay, 

 While .all is free and easy. 



In Michigania. 



Wliat country ever growed up 



So great in little time, 

 Just popping from the nurs'ry 



Right into like its prime : 

 Wlien U7icle Sam did wean her, 



'Twas but the other day, 

 And now she's quite a Lady, 



This Michigania. 



Upon the river Clinton, 

 Just thro' the country back, 



You'll find in shire of Oakland 

 The town oi' Pontiac — 



Which springing up o' sudden, 

 Scar'd wolves anil bears away, 



That us'd to rove about there, 

 In Michigania. 



Then come ye Yankee farmers. 

 Who've mettle hearts like me, 



And elbow-grease in plenty, 

 To bow the forest tree ; 



Come take a 'Quarter Section,' 

 And I'll be bound you'll say. 



This country takes the rag off, 

 This Michigania. 



— During the year 18G9, nineteen hundred patents 

 upon agricultural subjects were issued from the 

 United States Patent Office. The more prominent 

 matters were classed as follows : ploughs and at- 

 tachments to ploughs, 255 ; harvesters and attach- 

 ments, 195 ; planters, 150 ; cultivators, 150 ; churns, 

 130 ; rakes, 90 ; seeding and sowing machines, 80 ; 

 harrows and pulverizers, 80 ; bec-hivcs, 62 ; sepa- 

 rators and smut machines, 50. 



