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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
Sheep are the most innocent and unsuspecting of all do- 
mestic animals, which admonishes us they need our pro- 
tection and that they should not be suffered to roam at 
large over the woods, as other animals, without some per- 
son to look after them. I shall, therefore, as a matter of 
convenience and profit, recommend them being taken for 
safe keeping to pastures inclosed with good fences, with- 
out which no one need think of raising them to profit, as 
the days of shepherds are past. 
I have for the last eight or tew years kept on my plan- 
tation from 75 to 100 head, which has cost me nothing 
except salting them once a week and keeping up my 
fences ; besides this they have had no other care during 
fall and winter but to keep them behind my other stock 
to glean what they leave in the different fields; and I 
might have kept double the number by taking care of the 
Vvheat and oat straw, and feeding it to them, which has 
been waisted on my place every year ; and then have 
had in the spring and summer a sufficiency of pasture 
grounds to have made all fat ; sheep are less expensive in 
winter than any stock we raise, but it is indispensible to 
have good pastures in summer for them, and nothing is 
better than a Crab Grass pasture. 
My experience with sheep is, they have yielded me a 
profit by their wool of 50 per cent., independent of a fat 
lamb or sheep, whenever I wanted it. Now, Messrs. 
Editors, if we can add to our table comforts another 
wholesome dish and make 50 per cent, off of the capital 
invested, by their fleece, whoought to object to it 7 What 
profit sheep raising in the South would yield on a large 
scale I cannot say. I only preach what I have experi- 
enced myself. 
There is no better way to prepare wheat or oat straw 
for sheep, to make it palatable, than to saturate it with 
salt and water when putting the straw away. 
I think it advisable to shear sheep but once a year, say 
in tljie spring. This plan may not yield so much wool, 
but I think it would be conducive to their health. If, 
hov/ever, a disease called the rot should gel amongst them 
turn them in on a hoarhound patch, and let them stay 
there a few weeks — they will eat it freely and it will 
prove a sovereign remedy. 
I was struck, Messers. Editors, with an idea advanced 
by one of your contributors, in one of the early numbers of 
the 14th volume — that we should raise our own mules, &c. 
I give in at once to his advice, for I believe in raising 
everything on the plantation we can. But behold, in a 
subsequent number, another of your respected correspon- 
dents, in the same county, informs us: “If there was 100 
acres of stubble or pasture lands in that county, he had 
not seen the man that saw it.” I concluded at once that the 
chance for raising stock in that county was anything but 
good. The preacher that has the most effect with me is 
the one that practices what he preaches, and I say av/ay 
with all the rest. 
I will now close this imperfect communication by say- 
ing that “any man who is not fond of a fat quarter of 
lamb, nicely dressed, is no friend of mine.” 
E. JlNKINS. 
Horse Pen, Miss., 1857. 
A “liOVE” OF A KITCHEN. 
A Paris correspondent of the New York Express gives 
us Ae following bagatelle : 
“There resides in the Rue de la Chaussee d’Antin, a 
worthy lady who makes a single apartment in house more 
elegant than ail the rest combined. This grand apart- 
ment is— the kitchen. Whenever this lady receives com- 
pany, all sorts of ingenious plans are formed, and every 
description of little artifice employed to induce her guests, 
without actually asking them, to have a peep at this den 
—generally kept as much as possible in the back-ground, 
for obvious reasons, (nothing is so disgusting to a true 
epicure as the smell of cookery.) In most houses, there- 
fore, the kitchen is as far distant from ti:e drawing-room 
as possible. In this instance, on the conrrary, the local 
topography is so arranged that many persons Vv ish.ing to 
go out, mistake the door, and, just as they are about hasti- 
ly backing out, are accosted by the most dazzling of 
cooks, who cries, with a smiling air, ‘it’s the kitchen, 
Monsieur, (or Madame.) There’s no iiurm! Walk in, if 
you please!’ By this time, the glance ot tiie visiter has 
taken in all sorts of unexpected thing.s hung around the 
room, and he is induced to enter this curious boudoir 
kitchen. The walls and the floor are composed of njosaic 
brick of numerous colors — the prevailing bezng blue and 
white. Gas burners issue from rare and !)eautirul China 
saucers, or burn through the artificial wicks of antique 
lamps. The dressers and closets are covered with burn- 
ished copper, and contain the tliousand and one utensils 
of the cuisine, all shining with dazzing [-crish — ti\e knciicn 
girl being a Holland lass, spares uculier brick' dust nor 
muscle in keeping up the proud repuiation for cleanliiiesB 
of her country. What is most surprising in this model 
kitchen, is to see the saucepans and gridirons, bright as so 
many new matches, hung up with rose colored ribbons. 
Evidently these utensils consume more ribbon than even 
madame’s bonnet ! A short time ago, the friends of the 
proprietress of this unique establishment begged her to 
give a breakfast in this elegant kitchen. She consented, 
on one condition : the guests should themselves cook the 
breakfast they were to eat, and afterward they were to 
wash the dishes and put everything back in the same or- 
der in which they found it. The stipulation was stoical- 
ly accepted. Two ladies who have four or five hundred 
thousand francs a year to spend, the lady ofan admiral, a 
duchess, and the wives of two foreign ministers, were pre- 
sent on the occasion, and took part in the novel proceed- 
ings. The dish washing efforts of these fashionable but- 
terflies must have been amusing.” 
BOTTS IN HORSE!?. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — The greatest remedy 
in the world for the cure of Bolts in horses ; Take the 
root of Jerusalem Oak, or “Worm Seed,” as it is common- 
ly called, and boil it into a tea, which is easily done by 
mixing a little water with it and setting on the fire. Give 
the horse two quarts of the tea about milk warm, mixed 
with a little molasses or sugar. As it will operate on him 
like a charm by giving instant relief, and destroying the 
botts, the worm seed or Jerusalem Oak is the great sover- 
eign remedy for worms in either the human family or 
other animals and seems to have been particularly design- 
ed by the Great Creator of the Universe as such. It is 
the main ingredient which is used in all vermifuges for the 
distruction of worms in children, and is found in almost 
every farm in the United States, growing about the corn- 
ers of the fences, and is known by the great multitude of 
seed which it bears and its peculiar smell ; it has a very 
large root, and is a weed which dies in the fall and comes 
up again in the spring. 
The Botts are caused by a small nit which is deposited 
on the legs and flanks of horses in the fall season by a 
fly which resembles a bee ; the horse in biting or scratch- 
ing himself with his teeth gets the nit in its mouth and 
swallows; it almost immediately hatches and becomes a 
worm and feeds on the nutriment of the maw, until it is 
discharged with the food, when it is transformed into a 
fly. Uuiing the time the worm is in the maw, if the horse 
becomes heated by severe exercise, the worm will seize 
