FARM OF MR. WILLIAM K. TOWNSEND. 
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not so with the rain. This penetrates to the skin 
of all but the Merino breeds, and superadded to 
the drenching overhead, when not protected, they 
are obliged to stand or lie down on cold, wet 
ground, than which, nothing can be more perni¬ 
cious for sheep. 
To prove that sheep will do well in much closer 
yards than they are usually accustomed to be kept 
in,, when we were in Orange county, Mr. Pelton 
of Montgomery, showed us his sheep barn, 20 feet 
by 48, the under story of which he devoted for 
shelter to a flock of 70 sheep. On the south side 
of this is a yard, also 20 feet by 48, boarded up so 
close and high as to make it dog-proof. Here 
Mr. Pelton has kept his sheep for two winters, al¬ 
lowing them to go out twice a day to drink at a 
spring a short distance from the yard. He takes 
care to salt them regularly, and feed them well; 
apd says, with this treatment, his flock has winter¬ 
ed better than he ever knew it to do before. We 
saw the sheep, and their appearance corroborated 
ail that Mr. P. said of them. It has been proved 
by repeated experiments, that sheep, when shel¬ 
tered, keep on much less food than when left to 
run at large; and when we consider the saving of 
fodder, their superior health and condition, and 
above all, their security from destruction by dogs, 
no humane man or good farmer will grudge a tri¬ 
fling outlay to properly shelter his flocks. 
DURHAM HEIFER DAISY.— (Fig. 61-) 
The Property of E. P. Prentice, Esq., Mount Plope, N: Y. 
Daisy is out of Matilda, by Leopard. She won 
the gold medal at the Show of the American In¬ 
stitute, October, 1840. The artist has unfortu¬ 
nately made her limbs disproportionately fine, and 
not done her exact justice in other respects. To 
our eye she shows much better in the yard than 
in print, and is now a handsome full-grown cow. 
FARM OF MR. WILLIAM K. TOWNSEND. 
This farm is situated on Prospect Hill, about 3 
miles from New Haven, and the principal part of 
it lies sloping to the bay on the east side, a short 
distance from the old fort. It consists of 170 acres, 
45 of which is salt meadow, 15 woodland, and the 
balance arable. Mr. Townsend came into posses¬ 
sion of this farm about 14 years ago. It was then 
in a very neglected state, with scarcely a comforta¬ 
ble building of any kind upon it; the fences all 
down, and much of the land overrun with bushes. 
The meadows averaged less than one ton of hay 
to the acre, and the other crops were proportion- 
ably meager. It had been regularly skinned, and 
if a tenant brought the year about upon it and paid 
a small rent, it was all that was expected, and he 
had hard work even to do that. 
Upon moving on to this unpromising place, the 
first thing undertaken by Mr. Townsend/was to 
cut down the bushes and grub them up ; drain the 
pond holes and wet places ; and then pick up the 
stone, and all the spare time which could be had 
from other duties, employ it in relaying the old 
fences and constructing new ones At the same 
time he put the half-starved stock on the place into 
good condition, and then commenced making ma¬ 
nure, by gathering together all the rubbish to be 
