New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-26

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across tho prairie they snddenly Will open and leave
vacant place. The shepherd knows that rattle
srake is there, and with his staff no siish In large
focks herded OF. these snakes Kill lev sheep ovsry
year. Sheep brought from Eastern States, and WHICH
never saw or hoard Of rattle snake VIII snrnt no''
them In the same way At Other riss when the young
man wasreading there would rush among the sheep
and looking, he knsw It was Wolf The wolves creep
along through the grass that they MAJ have taste To-
mutton is their fayorite dish; 9Th rife he ia made
dish himself Tor tie bugxards.
The days On the prairie arc weary and long. Per
haps week or moro would lass and the young man
would see no person except whole he boarded There
the sky tho prairie almost Like auotb3r sxy ana
the patches of timber like clouds At last some
Que might be coming; Imam on horse bali hidden
by the erass man used 70 prairie life. rough looking
but sharpened by active duties. with heavy whip IN
his hand bis horse swift and strong. lie is hcrding
cattle stream, few miles of. They have
friendly meeting. Some Of his cattle have sireyed
lie cannot keep them In toupts with dos. His only
means viii horse and whip that will Jay open
The hide. \ few mornings since le w,s driving out his
cattle, ar they were going along quietly ono after
another ~ gle Gle according to CUSTOM toward their
feeding ground. when grs. Of wind shook bunch OF
dry rosin w5edS making sudden rattle, which started
tw, soung steers-they broke into n rnn. he pat
spurs his horse for he knew what going to teke
place ali the rest took The fright and nado Tor tho
timber, distant three four miles. Hs cot ahead of
some Of iem bnt Il Of use. When they got
into The timber part stopped. while othefs kept on
some he fond In another county but lie bad got oil FL
cept two - three--bad the ahepherd seen thomi
In the Fall tais young nsn woold hire held-a field
means whore was grown-snd the standing stalks
perhaps and all say 40 or 50 acres, and attend
10 bis 3hoep. Sometimes several OF these, sheep men
would board al the house. aud pass theiI spare
time in read ng. playing caeckors. and tho like. Tie
OILY W., ever badly beat playing checkers vas
one OF those hep mon. They will 60 10 fro!lcss and
meetings u read much. and somctires take . dram
u this th. cannot afford to do fox their sheep require
tho Of ss5eu men. In stormy weather they arc out
and get the weak ones rto straw sheds. Tue custom is
TO have the lambs snd t. Iasa cone at the samo time
II the Eock 10 large ssgsi herds required. and II
tae weather stormy the por things brought into
| the house, at least ~ some shelter.
| At last The young man b,ngbt large tract 81 land
fenced il In as his means increased but with much
yoxalicn and labor for the stream u sheep farming
smoothly. indeed docs my other kind of
business and he raised corn and sound timothy and
Glover Then no built good house anc Lad a house
keeper. but no tsy with his sheep he did not
get wife. though this as an oversight and no Lost
much yea air. very muct for want u wife. and Ia
this way he liz L. rasug sheep and caring for hem
til al length ho did get wife aud nice one too and
now he nas things around him as neat a welikept
parlor
Ia has long shels, IN part OF them are pens OF
that vil not permit s.oep to tuna around l. these
ewes put whom they wall no. own iswo no mat
| a. Il
various tTlst, 4. maternal az ction When the lamb
gcs her scent win it. But with oil the oon-
reHeuces lLa he eo the lambIng season ia fr Of
care As VOL Grover" has st. Eternal vigilance
Ia tie prics Of Isnls" Nothing more common than
70 lnd smb few hosrs cid lying down trying 70
rise or II sp bobllng song il. H.DeT legs and no
mother to own H. In the vide world Of gr1s and 81
sheep has friend but tie sb )aord and he has no
milk. The question Is What " 90 viii t. Ancrpoh-
eIoed ego may, anoDg -four Eve huadred sheep de-
ect the mothe, or II may not for 1t Is lkey thorc ale
half dozen cases Of prcosey the sanc hind. The only
chnnoe IL 10 Manufacture little rgturs Affection In
many Sunday School books are pictures OF sheep and
shepherds with their crooks Mos. people thinSa crook
IL thing Of tho past Not at AL. With the long han
die sheep essy Ia caught by the log and n.ncl time
and tyoub'e - ID while the shepherd Is attending 70
these opng strangers. Likely enough one lamb stenst
mas lost liz mother trough Il bad good one OF perhaps
she had no mix. AID peshed hin of; such are running
around and bicai.pg pfally and mus, be cared for;
meanwhile other anbe are cOninyof courss part Of
their time IL Is night and there " the flooding Of oticr
sheep which reqores much labor and tine. II there IA
enytlng else to be done II has to wait on ise or re-
main undone. A. tbess times oyery living soul on the
place Duat work
Suppose, now. a storm !, coming. what they call
"lambklcf" black and threatening. the prairie.
the horizon VI which seems far away that one uay
fancy foreign country there at least New Eng md or
California and these isnbs beating and Tho ewes
blea.ng anl running to and fro, or WHOM tho men come
in. all swoeping toward them. with their cries. and
there Is confusion than in Babel; and soon the
storm breaks II rains sps snow or seets and tho
cries OF the sheep times louder than before aid
YOU will have some idea 1t Is successfully 10 Gaze
for large flock &. sheep.
One Of tho most important things regarding sleep Is
their feed In Winter for matter what corn and hay
cost eating goes on and 900 sheep viii cat vast sight
They e-o net hike your ten shoep which Will live at To
straw stack or In little stalk field. One Of those large
aocks win eat tea sore Gold bare IN day. It viii eat
into frozen Timothy sod aud mako 1t bare "a a desert
II must bo fod genuine asy and corn and IT, feed them
even on tsn cont corn which, by tho way saw Its last
day whom Slavery and Sumter fell Together males i'm
| mense work, saying nothing abont other cares.
TITO very day the grass prcks through the sod the
sheep arc turned out the open prairie This VIII be
about Ito 10th Of April. At this period 100 sheep will
cat clean I5O acres IN day and travel eight or nino
miles. They will not get quite full but will do better
than on dry fed They ought to como to grass gradu
ally and The prairie grass is bost for tho tame variety
/ soours Tho next morning ono will find tie grass III