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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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(Not) A POLITICAL ARTICLE. 
FOREIGNERS. 
(Naturalized.) 
natives. 
THOSE " ORNAMENTAL DEAD LAMBS.” 
A correspondent, referring to the question 
in the Agriculturist, writes : 
I take this occasion to answer “ Citizen,” 
what dead lambs are hung upontrees, fences, 
&c., for. The practice prevails extensively 
in this part of the country. My neighbors 
say that it is to keep the dogs from getting 
them, as that will learn them to kill sheep. 
But I think it is a bad sign to have dead 
lambs, any way. It has been the practice of 
many hereabouts, to have their lambs come 
in very early in the spring, and then get them 
all fat for market, as soon as possible, so as 
to make a profit on the sheep, and make the 
price of the lambs clear. But our last two 
winters have been unusually severe, and con¬ 
sequently very hard upon young lambs. 
I tried my luck at buying some sheep, in 
the year 1854, as I had a plenty of keep¬ 
ing for them. I kept them in a warm place, 
with plenty of good feed and everything that 
they could want; but out of eleven lambs, I 
only raised five. They were a mixed breed 
of Merinoes, from the northern part of the 
State of New-York. Cannot some of your 
subscribers tell me, whether the South 
Downs would not be preferable, and whether 
they would not stand these hard winters bet¬ 
ter 1 
I am very fond of raising early lambs, and 
any one that would tell me how to do it suc¬ 
cessfully, would confer a benefit on me and 
many of my neighbors; and then the “ Cum 
zen ” would not have his eyes troubled with 
“dead lambs.” 
A Young Farmer. 
Liberty Corner, N. J., April 7, 1856. 
