Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-25
A Model Farmer,

The editor of the Tehama Gazette visited
lately the farm of Henry Wilson, Esq, on
Thom's Creek, some six or seven miles from.
Tehama. He says:
"Having partaken of breakfast such as
can only be prepared at well regulated
farmhouse we accompanied Mr. Wilson to see
some of his stock, and the improv ements late
| ly made in his farm. Among a flock Of some
nineteen hundred sheep he pointed out sever
al breeds of the best blooded and finest feec.
ed animals that perhaps have ever been i'm
ported into California. Among them were
the Australia, the Southdown, the Merino
and the Saxony variety; each with one to
two lambs following them. Owing to the
scant pasturage induced by unpleasant wea-
ther, no doubt, the sheep were in ordinary
condition, but few days will so change this.
now that fair weather prevails, to make
vast difference in the course of a month
While many of our sheep raisers in various
parts of the country have lost large part of
the increase of their sheep by neglect and
other causes, Mr. Wilson's loss by all causes
combined will not exceed a half dozen of
lambs, which is saying great deal for the
treatment pursued by this gentleman. In ad-
dition to shepherd, he has one of those in
| valuable Scotch shepherd dogs to herd and
keep tie sheep together, that is equal to the
services of at least two men. Neither day or
night is he absent from among them to keep
them from straying away and getting lost.
| The profits on this branch of stock raising
cannot fail of being immense, and should no
bad luck intervene Mr. Wilson will have in
his sheep alone a snug fortune in very few
! years
The next place we visited was the garden
space of some three or four acres, about half
of which is devoted to the raising Of supe.
rior class of fruit trees, most of which have
been imported from the nurseries of the best
English fruit-growers. The soil is Of such
character, being composed ofrich black loan,
that it will produce almost anything and
! fruits of the finest description, pears, apples,
plums and peaches may be looked for with
confidence in the coming season. The balance
of the garden is devoted to the raising of
kitchen vegetables, the quality of which SEEM
ed to be very fine. In addition to the gar
den he has under fence some three hundred
acres of as fine land as we ever saw most of
this is now sown and if the forthcoming grain
is as free from smut as it was last year. there
will exist no cause for complaint. In the way
of beef cattle and cows, we are unable to give
the number, as the great majority of them
| are in the Russian River valley, on account
of the superior pasturage afforded them there
! The barns and other out-houses for the more
domestic animals and fowls are large and
commodious, well ventilated and cleanly kept,
thereby rendering the inmates healthy and
thrifty. Taken as whole we have seldom,
if ever, inspected more complete farm, for
the extent of it, and one that deserves to be
called model for others to go by"
INSANITY David w. Roberts, a we'll known
resident of this city, says the Sacramento
Register of Friday, was taken to the Station
House last evening, his intellect being COM
pletely wrecked from a vice alike injurious
to mind and body. He was so noisy and
troublesome, that word was at once sent to
the County Physician, so that, if possible, the
required examination might be made, and the
patient sent to the Asylum at Stockton, this
morning DR.. Simmons visited the Station
| House, but as the attendance of second
| physician was necessary, the professional ex-
animation was postponed till this morning.
and Roberts will in all probability leave for
Stockton tomorrow. Although failing for
some time, and his system gradually weaken
ing from the effects of the vice referred to.
Roberts insanity did not assume violent
type till last evening, when his friends saw it
necessary to confne him.