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a million annually, and a largo and increasing consumption of mutton in all 
the cities and large towns—the city of New York alone averaging over Iwelvo 
thousand sheen a week—there is no fear of a dull market for wool or mutton. 
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After nearly a quarter of a century’s experience, I can safely say that no 
money has been made so easily or so cheaply on the farm as that by means of 
my sheep. In the spring when your barns are empty, your stacks gone, you 
see their value soon to come back from the golden fleeces which the quiet sheep 
ha3 been maturing for you during all the long winter, and which is yielded up 
to you with pleasure. And in the autumn the increase of the flock comes 
again to replenish your pockets. I acknowledge a stronger attachment to the 
eheep than to any other animal. My flock is my pet, and, unlike many pets, 
it pays me bountifully for my care. 
Darien, N. Y., February, 1854. 
VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY CONSIDERED IN ITS APPLICA¬ 
TION TO THE CULTURE OF FARM PLANTS. 
BY JOHN TOWN LEY, MOUNDVILLE. 
“ Nature is not to be conquered except by obeying tier.”—B acon. 
A number of intelligent and enterprising farmers living in the several coun¬ 
ties surrounding London, and who are in the habit of attending the London 
Market, formed themselves into a club. One chief olject they had in view was 
mutual instruction, lectures are delivered, or papers read on farming ti atters by 
members or others at stated periods, and a discussion usually follows, in which 
the views advanced are criticised by members present, and some general con¬ 
clusion arrived at. I learn by a recent number of the Agricultural Gazette, 
that at the monthly meeting of the London Farmer’s Club, held on the 7th of 
November last, Mr. Baker, of Whittle, one of the most eminent practical farmers of 
Britain, delivered “a very admirable lecture ” on the benefits which science had 
conferred on agriculture. The lecturer gave a rapid sketch of the relation in 
■which the different sciences stand to the practice of the farmer, and recited the 
many instances in geology, chemistry, botany entomolog}', mechanics, archi¬ 
tecture, &c., where farm management had been improved by the suggestions 
and discoveries of scientific men. At the close of the discussion which ensued, 
