Show sheep baiting Rai ting ahr important factor of agricultural business bus inest ia of go much interest to most cf our readers and ha hitherto received BO much careful consideration that we believe to act in conchi dance with our patrons by giving all the information concerning this vital question which it is in our power to give A correspondent of the massachusetts ploughman asks biow much pasture does a sheep require or rather how many sheep could be kept on fifty acres answer the difference in foils and in their grass producing power atko it impossible to give any definite answer to this one thing is certain that a rough pasture would in four or five years carry nearly double the stock that could be be pastured from the fact that cheep greatly improve the land they feed upon whence the spanish term the animal with the golden hoof the old rule in merino lime when the sheep weigh over seventy five pounds was that six sheep would feed where one cow would but with the improvement in size and requirements of flech not one farm and probably on moat pastures not ivr for a cows allowance A good pasture of fifty acres might keep twenty in winter sheep will cat from three to three and a half per cent of their live weight of bay or id equivalent dependent on the other food given anim snobia be a little meal or grain or roots and they must have good clean water to drink at all times an to tho breed most desirable for our correspondent if he can locate hia sheep run within a few hours of boston m arket be had best turn hia itt to raising early lambs for spring and summer and to feeding sheep for fat mutton in winter in ether of which pursuits there is ft profit if properly managed fifty summer keeping 50 winter aped SO winter feed for lamb sixty emht T wo hundred pound of wool it M FiTe cordt ini cure 25 toul returns ha add to this the value of your ewes one year older and fifteen per cent off for that and yon ave or your old flock and this is supposing judicial personal care and a haven of immunity frona dogs if our correspondent means to raise lambs or fatten sheep the best breed would b high grade downs or ven with dash ef cots wold large ca frino so called are brought from michigan chith hate coarse blood enough to have broken down the antiquity of the merino and which raise good lambs yield good wool and fatten well ane of the several state conventions held last thursday were of much comment among itce tt day according to the telegraphic synopsis furnished by the ass press which of course is only metaphor caily to be relied upon the blaine men generally feel elated over them and claim ahat favorite has forged ahead considerably they now clim that with the aid of the new hampshire delc gAtion headed by win E chandler blame will have forty of new En glands eighty solid voles or mor than what he had in 1876 aney cl mil alho that he will have mary land delaware and new jersey solid and that when the tug of war cornea in the convention they will have nearly all of ins the grunt men homeer ho weer claim a con ide ruble portion of the maryland and wisconsin votes and although chagrined at their failure to secure a solid delegation in tennessee and unmistakably afraid of he able revolt against the unit rule in pennsylvania and new V still predict will bo nominated on the first ballot the friend 01 sherman also profess great in the ultimate success of heir candidate they argue that neither grant nor blame ann cnn be nominated on the farat ballot and count on a combination being then deflected against alaice of which is according to their calca lations to be the beneficiary D passionate pass ionato observers generally continue to believe that illinois is the key to the situation and that until the anat the final result will be wholly problematical diametrically opposite opinions arc expressed by democratic congressmen to the probably pro bablo future action of the fehlo delegation incase it shall become apparent that thurman ha no chance for the cincin gaii nomination thurlian Thur nian and his intimate friends tiro earnestly op p bied to tilden but it la predicted by somo well acquainted with the personnel of the ohio delegation that the majority when thurman la out of the question way vo rap ani provo woolen mills are now turning out larga quan titie ol 01 alotha flannels jeans bl aketa and other goods and arc forwarding them ty their agent john C culler salt lake city buyers would da well to examine goods before sending cost they ut no cotton in their in their claths cloths msty |