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Show a v LIVE STOCK COLUMN. WHAT THE SHEEP HUSBANDRY CF THE FUTURE WILL BE. Important Changes In the Ideas and methods of Sheep Raisers in Recent Tears The Sheep That Pays Must Pro-dace Pro-dace Uoth Wool and Mutton. Sheep raisers are abandoning; the ideas they held in the past, which have eo poorly served during the last five years, end are gaining in a sound knowledge of breeding, feeding and marketing principles. prin-ciples. They are establishing themselves in wiser business practices, more in practical harmony with the facts that must prevail in this country. There is a disposition to compete, if we must compete with outsiders, in the most efficient and effectual manner. There ia a willingness to eliminate the weak points our sheep husbandry, and work only ' that which has proved itself sabstan-ual. They leave theories and pursue facts. They intend to profit by the past weaknesses and errors that formerly deluded them. They have confidence con-fidence in themselves, in their abilities and capacities, and in the national integrity in-tegrity and legislation. If a period of unprecedented prosperity for sheep and wool has not well begun in this country the writer fails to read the signs of the times. If a sheep combining com-bining mutton and wool in a higher de- by some of us old fogies cannot be the basis of a permanent prosperity then the experience of the last few years has been a business delusion. Such, however, it has not been; it has surpassed all reasonable reason-able expectations and silenced all opposition oppo-sition and cant; it has been demonstrated in financial prosperity at a time when a wool bearing sheep proper has been discarded, dis-carded, save under the restricted circumstances circum-stances to which it must specially belong. ' Circumstances unlooked for and unexpected unex-pected have freed the more progressive sheep raisers from the theories and bondage bond-age of the past, set np truth and business busi-ness methods that will not fail to secure ' prosperity in hard times, and which will not have to be abandoned in good times. Sheep raising is as practicable on the western and southern ranges a3 in the grass lands of Virginia and West Virginia, Virgin-ia, or as on the grain farms of Kentucky or Illinois. It promises to be a relief to the ! western ranchmen and the farmers of Ohio. It has saved the sheep husbandry of New York and Massachusetts, as well as the ranchmen of Texas. It has succeeded suc-ceeded wherever tried, and where it haa not been tried there have been complaints com-plaints and distress. Cor. Rural New Yorker. This Horse Cannot Jump. Sometimes an old horse becomes vicious in proportion as he outlives hi3 usefulness. useful-ness. a3 old men or women do occasionally. occasion-ally. The aged qundruped develops a pnimr of j-nnipiray ttrct rrcij " nevtr feU:j- pectfd of him in his younger days. He may lie down in the road if you want him to draw a load, he may persistently stumble and throw you over his head if you try to ride him, and seem so feeble that you are so ashamed of yourself you feel as though you ought to be carrying him. But turn him out in the field anil the decrepitude disappears as by magic, especially if a neighbor has a fine field of corn or oats across the fence. Th& animal is a living witness to the theory of the mind cure people that weakness and disease exist in the mental state The old rascal will vault over that fence like a 2-year-old, and gorge himself him-self on your neighbor's cats till he is fit to burst. One old horse like this will ruin a whole herd of colts and make them breachy like himself, and they never get over it. For the especial trimming in of such horses, young or old, as show themselves breachy, the tether in the illnstratioa has been designed- It is merf'y a rope OLD IKiAN CAN'T JUMP NOW. nine or ten feet long. One'. '.end" is tied ajound the horse's neck, as shown. The other is cli-awn between his fore legs and looped around the surcingle in the manner man-ner shown. Then it is brought around outside of one of his forelegs, and gain taken back to his neck, where it i tied to the other end of the rope. The science of it , is that if a horse cannot r:iiso his head he cannot jump, and the rope is tied Just tight enough to prevent his raising rais-ing his head higher than the top of his shoulder; at the same time he can eat and drink freely. Not by Wheat Alone. President McLouth, of the Dakota Agricultural college, came out lately in s very plain spoken way jv-aiust the idea that wheat growing, whalev-r may be its present attractions, can ever be a permanently per-manently successful system of fanning. He says: No trade or business can thrive which does not furnish employment more than one-quarter of the working year. Tli6 shoemaker of Lynn or the weaver of Manchester who is reduced to "half time" is in a precarious condition. What ther could we expect of a Dakota wheat farmer who, with his teams, and his tools, and his lands, is reduced to less than "half time?" Ther is a law Lore as inflexible in-flexible as gravitation. There may be rare exceptions, but they are accidental and temporary, and only go to prove the rule. Your farming must be such that when you cannot plow or sow or culti rate or harvest you can be employed with your stock. When your grain, or your roots, or your hay, or your fruit cannot grow, your cows, your sheep and your swine snail still grow and yield their increase. This is the philosophy f thrift A Ionz, Hard Task, j "I wonder what Short Is driving at now? ! Ho seems to be very busy of late." "Yee; he has just drawn a prize in the lottery, lot-tery, and ia going around paying up all his debts." Lowell Citizen. piscosslng a New Blank Book. Bookkeeper The binder has got this new ledier ruled In a very funny way. Proprietor (looking at the book) Yes, it , ttuna to be humorously Ink lined. Yeno- I wine's News. ' j . j ! ' Proven. j Who says figures never lief'- c o ! light '" J s' |