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will be valuable information to all persons engaged in the busi- 

 ness, since I have always found the grand difficulty lay in the first 

 drink. Like bipeds, after they got a taste they are ready enough 

 to go in for future drinks. The letter is from W. R. Bunnell, 

 Bridgeport, Conn., who says truly : 



" Thousands of lambs are yearly lost in this country from not 

 knowing how to feed them. Many years since, when engaged in 

 the business of wool-growing, a Scotchman raised for me the finest 

 flock of (about 250) Merino lambs I have ever seen, losing hardly 

 one that was born alive. His success was mostly owing to feed- 

 ing the weak ones with cow's milk, in this manner : With the 

 three lower fingers of the right hand clasp the right fore leg near 

 the foot, and do the same with the left hand and left foot, then 

 raise it up and holding the head of the lamb a few inches below 

 your mouth, insert a thumb and fore-finger into each side of its 

 mouth, opening and holding it so as to let a small stream of cow's 

 milk fiow from your ow^n mouth into the lamb's. It may strangle 

 and struggle some, but there need be no fears of injuring it. One 

 or two mouthfuls are usually sufficient, and these may be given 

 in as many minutes. Be sure to give enough to make his ribs 

 bulge some when you stand him on his feet. After a few feed- 

 ings the lambs will huddle about your feet, sticking up their noses 

 in a most amusing manner, begging to be taken up and fed." 



Such feeding and saving of lives will do much to multiply 

 sheep, and thus cheapen food and clothing — two of the essential 

 wants of life. 



THE CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



This subject was now taken up, and an interesting discussion 

 followed. 



Solon Robinson read the following extracts from a letter to the 

 Tribune, from Noble Hill, of Caton, Steuben Co., N. Y. : 



" That the cranberry is a favorite luxury, is abundantly proved 

 by the high price which a good, and not unfrequently an inferior 

 article will command in the markets. That it is easy of cultiva- 

 tion, and that there is an abundance of land now lying waste, 

 which is just adapted to its growth, is, perhaps, not so generally 

 known. If the thousands of acres of swamps, of a peat soil, within 



