Short Horns—Ramfoouillet Sheep—Handling Stock. 
gnawed down to the very gravel, and from 
appearances, would not afford one-fourth the 
quantity of grass. The difference Mr. C. 
explained to be, that his own had been un¬ 
disturbed since the original forest was cut 
off, while the others were occasionally turn¬ 
ed over and exhausted by a meagre crop of 
rye, whenever they would yield enough to 
pay the labor, and were then turned out, 
like a superannuated horse, without care or 
provender, to recruit as best they might. No 
seed was ever sown upon them, no manure 
ever added to them, and the consequence is, 
that instead of always affording a plentiful 
growth of pasture, they yield barely suffi¬ 
cient to pay taxes and repairs of fences. 
Another field belonging to Mr. C., of 14 
acres, was still more remarkable. It had 
pastured during the summer 10 grown cattle 
and 36 sheep, yet the white clover lay on the 
whole surface, one prostrate, tangled mass of 
herbage, in which the foot was buried at 
every step. On asking a solution of this, we 
were told that, like the former, this had 
never been cropped since the clearing off the 
wood, and in addition, it had, last spring, a 
top dressing of one bushel of plaster per acre, 
and to this was the exuberant growth of 
white clover entirely owing. A small corner of 
the field, which had been omitted, had good 
grass upon it, but it was the red-top and blue 
grass, with a small growth of white clover 
underneath. The plaster caused the clover 
to change places with the grasses, and gave 
that the undisputed preeminence. The 
quantity of unconsumed herbage on the 
ground, at a moderate estimate, we should 
judge would not fall short of three-quarters 
of a ton to the acre when cured. We may 
cease to wonder why some people grow 
poor, while others grow rich, in cultivating 
adjoining fields under the same advantages. 
Short Horn Cattle.— Mr. C. has a small 
herd of very choice Short Horns. These 
have large size, for their ages, being mostly 
young, possess fine hair, fine form, admirable 
milking properties, but are especially distin¬ 
guished as handlers. This is a point Mr. C. 
has wisely considered of the first conse¬ 
quence, and it will tell hereafter in the re¬ 
sults on his stock, like inbred truth on the 
human character. In this kind of stock, if 
handling and milking go together, the 
breeder may let other things look after them¬ 
selves. If these go right, nothing else can 
well go wrong. We are prepared to see a dis¬ 
tinguished race from these choice specimens. 
Rambotjillet Sheep. —The flock of sheep, 
consisting of 37 ewes and 13 rams, including 
17 1 
lambs, originally selected by Mr.C. personally, 
from the celebrated Rambouillet flock in 
France, excited our unqualified admiration. 
The imported ram, and several of the ewes, 
could only he procured after they had been 
used in the national flock as far as it could be 
done with advantage. They possess unusual 
size for Merinos, with excellent forms and 
good constitutions. But their chief excel¬ 
lence consists in their immense fleece of fine 
wool. By fineness we do not mean to be 
understood that they have that silky texture 
that characterizes the Saxon alone; but while 
the fibre is equal to the best of our original 
Merinos, the quantity surpasses any we now 
recollect of the same quality. As a proof of 
this, it is only necessary to state that the 
ram sheared this spring, of tolerably clean 
wool, twelve and three-quarter lbs., and a 
yearling ewe, weight ten lbs. The average 
we omitted to obtain, but if we are uot mis¬ 
taken, it w T as between six and eight lbs. 
The growth of wool on them is enormous—- 
it is wool all over, and nothing but wool. 
They seem fully to come up to their destiny, 
being preeminently wool producers, as there 
is scarcely an inch square on their whole 
surface that is not covered with fine vjool . 
And it not only grows on the whole body, 
head, and legs, but the massy folds on the 
neck and thighs, and sometimes around the 
body, not only on the males but frequently 
on the females, with the large dewlap pecu¬ 
liarly characterizing this superb race, yield 
a surface to hang the wool on not afforded 
by any other race than the best Merinos. 
These have been imported at a large expense 
by Mr. C., for the express purpose of restor¬ 
ing the Merino flocks of this country to their 
original high character, and we think he has 
just the material in his hands to effect so de¬ 
sirable an object. 
Handling Stock. 
There are a great many persons, who 
do not understand even the significa¬ 
tion of the term handling , as applied to cat¬ 
tle, sheep and swine. It is a subject pretty 
difficult for words alone to explain, and to 
thoroughly learn it, one must go into the 
cattle yard and sheep pens, with a good in¬ 
structor, and do so from the living subjects 
themselves. A knowledge of handling is of 
the first importance to the breeder and gra¬ 
zier, and if ignorant of it, they can never 
produce animals of quick feeding properties, 
unless guided by others, or by mere chance. 
As well then, as the term handling can be 
defined on paper, it is this. When we press 
