Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-02-01
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Thon.hts for the Thoughtful.
PROM VARIOUS SOURCES.


Most of the diseases Of sheep the con-
sequence ofdebility.
LANES should be separated from old sheep.
Old and feeble sheep. separated from the rug
ged.
SHEEP, a, uell as other animals, should
have access to fresh water, when fed On dry
food, in winter.
FARaERs who find it necessary to reduce
their focks. should be very particular in Sc
lecting those tina. they keep, and let none
but the poorest go from their farms
SuEEp in winter should have fresh air.
shelter from cold winds. little exercise, &C.
cssionsl change of quarters, dry. clean lodg-
ing, and nutritious food A close, damp,
low yard is their abomination.
A cross between the South-Dowu and the
Meriuo makes very useful and profitable
sheep The wool will sell for nearly much
as the Meriuo, and the lambs will bring more
for the butcher.
SHEEP, are perhaps the most profitable |
agement; but on unsuitable soil aud i'll man
agement, they the least desirable of farm
stock. What the man is worth the land is
worth" What the shepard is worth the
sheep are worth.
ALL animals should. if possible, be housed
or provided with shelter Cattle require
much less food when stabbed, than when al
lowed to run at large. as they waste little or
none, and comfort is essential to their thrift.
More manure is also secured, an object of
great consequence to every farmer that under
stands his true interests. Sheep, if housed,
must not be crowded into close stables or
houses, as diseases is apt to be the result; and
all animals require to have their stables well
ventilated, to prevent the effects of bad air.
Horses are better fed from managers than racks
and sheep should never have their food SO
that they draw it from above, as the grass
seeds aud chaf fall upon and ell their WOOL,
injuring 1t materially.
IT must never be forgotten By the farmer
that there are works of charity and kindness,
that more frequently press their claims upon
time. While his happy family is clustered
around the cheerful hearth; while his table is
loaded with the bounties which kind Provi-
dence, personal industry, and fruitful soil
have given him; while his wood-house is fill
ed, his granaries overlooking, and every rea-
sonable want supplied; he must not forget
there are other less favored individuals or
families around; children destitute of fire and
wood; widows and orphans distressed and des
titutc, all requiring care. and Eot to be for
sakcn while the frosts of winter are upon the
earth. For the poor there must be employ
nent; for the destitute there must De a supply;
and the honest and industrious, or the unfor-
tunate poor, have claims on the more fortu-
nate, that may not be disregarded. Well d.
rected charity is one of the few acts of life in
which both the giver and the receiver are
blessed; let no one then forget the Door.
EVERY drop of milk should be drained from
the uddcr at each milking, for two reasons,
that the last pint taken from the COW will
make more butter than the first quart and
that the cows will afterwards fail to give just
as mssb milk as is left in the udder.
HORSES, should always have plenty of lit
ter in their stables; it answers double lur-
pose; first, by absorbing and retaing the salts
of the urine that fall upon it in a considera-
Bile degree. and thus rendering the manure
more valuable, and secondly, by preventing
in part that liability to swell, to which the
feet and legs ofa horse subjected when
standing on hard plank floor.
NEGLIGENCE, and inattention is as inexcu-
sable in the winter as in the summer; and fre
quentS is productive of worse effects How
often DO we see farmers suffer such losses in
their flocks and herds from sheer inattention
labor and privasion will hardly placs them in
their first position. Ifcattle and horses were
looked to as they should be, or if sheep aud
swine were not left to get their living by hook
or crook, VIC should not see so mani walking
skeletons harnessed or yoked to the plow in
the spring, or so many carcases around the
fields and roads inviting the crows to their
feast. The prudent, careful farmer will con-
slider the winter as the trying time for hi.
stock. aud by shelter, and sufficient food
avert its rieor. and prevent its consequences
as far possible.
LAND and labor are the principal sources o
public and private wealth. The more fertili-
ty we can impart to the one, and the moro
intelligence we can infuse into the other, the
greater will be the returns they make, and