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Mr. Milo C. I'fck, Bcnsim, Vt., says : "One year I lust twn-tliinls (jf 

 my pnie brei'd Iambs IVdiii the same disease; I atUiluitc the cause to high 

 feed oil Lfi aiii, and laek of extjrcisc for the slieep. I ctjiisulled ' Youatt, 

 Skinner & RandalPs Hook on Shccp-Htishaii'liy,' an'i I'ohikI tiiat there was 

 no euro for it save by the h'ss use of i;rain and nioi-e exercise. They g'ive 

 the name of goitre or swelled neck, pr(d)ably not one in a lnnidn;d live to 

 iiiatme with them in their throat. Mr. Joseph .Sheldon, uf Fair Haven, in 

 this county, has a buck bred by Victor Wright, of Cromwell, Vt., which 

 has them, and yet he is lialo and hearty, and is the tnost valnal)le S[)aiiish 

 Merino buck in this crmnty, and is valued at S3, 000. lie never en- 

 tails the bunches in his lambs, and, - therefore, it cannot bo hereditary. 

 My practice has been since I lost so many 1 nnbs from this disease to give 

 my brood ewes good hay and water till about the 1st of March, tlien I com- 

 mence giving them lightly of grain till they begin to drop their Iambs, then 

 give grain and roots freely. Since I have pursued this course, 1 have iiad 

 no trouble with goitre." 



Mv. A. (J. Percy writes from Newark, Wayne county, N. Y., and con- 

 tends that the disease is organic, and tiiat " the only cur(! is to cease 

 breeding from bucks or ewes that have any connection or relation to flocks 

 that have produced them. I have no doiilit, in my own mind, that the dis- 

 ease is hereditary, and of a scrofulous nature, as bucks do not always trans- 

 mit it, for it is well authenticated, that bucks having large lumps in their 

 necks have been used, never producing a single lamb that had lumps in its 

 neck; then again, bucks that had small lumps, have transmitted to almost 

 every lamb that they sire." 



Mr. .Aaron Reynolds, Jackson, Mich., says he thinks half the lambs in 

 that county die of goitre. "Six years ago I paw the first case of goitre. 

 In two years I did not raise one lamb in five. My ewes were all fat. I 

 sold them to a man who kept them very poor ; says he has no trouble with 

 goitre. Two years ago I bought 40 ewes in the fall; all wore very poor- 

 In the spring they were all in high order. I raised 37 lambs, anclhad three 

 or four cases of goitre. This spring the ewes were all fat. Number of 

 ewes, 30. Several had twins. I have rais(!d 8 of them. All had swelled 

 neck but four. Some lived two days, and died. Those that make out to 

 live do well. I have a pet wether four years old that has it, but it never 

 seems to get any larger. If the swelling is close to the jaws, they arc 

 sure to die; if down the nvddle of the neck, they arc more apt to live. As 

 many reasons are assigned as there are for potato rot. The poorest kept 

 flocks suffer but little. Ewes in high order have but few lambs that live. 

 I keep l)ut a small flock, from GO to 100; keep them in yard from December 

 to middle of April; never allow them to get wet while there. I feed clover 

 and timothy hay, with wheat straw, with plenty of water. Thus they are 

 in bett'i .rd-r in s|)ring than in the fall — in fact, they are fat.'' 



A \ ALL ABLE INVENTION FOR StRAWBERY PiCKERS. 

 This is a sto-.l only weigliing one pound, made with a standard ronnd top 

 iltached ti» an iron sole, which is strapped to the foot, so that a person may 

 use with both hands full, and when he desires to move forward, his foot 



