Ghost Stories
The Dancing Devil
On 16th November, 1870, Mr. Shchapoff, a Russian squire...
Ghost Hunters Of Yesterday And To-day
Psychical research, of which so much mention has been...
'oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad'
'I suppose you will be getting away pretty soon, now Fu...
Farm House 7 Farm Cottages
Altogether too little attention has been paid in our co...
With Intent To Steal
To sleep in a lonely barn when the best bedrooms in t...
The Eight-mile Lock
It was in the August of 1889, when I was just arranging...
Farm House 1 Chamber Plan
The roof story is partitioned into convenient-sized bed...
The Other Lodgers
"In order to take that train," said Colonel Leverin...
The Ghost-ship
BY RICHARD MIDDLETON
Fairfield is a little village...
Farm House 4 Interior Arrangement
The front door from the veranda of the house opens ...
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Southdown Ewe
The Southdown, a cut of which we present, is a fine, compact, and solid sheep, with dark face and legs; quiet in its habits, mild in disposition, of a medium quality, and medium weight of fleece; and yielding a kind of mutton unsurpassed in flavor and delicacy—equal, in the estimation of many, to the finest venison. The carcass of a Southdown wether, when well fatted, 363 is large, weighing, at two to three years old, a hundred to a hundred and twenty pounds. The ewe is a prolific breeder, and a good nurse. They are exceedingly hardy, and will thrive equally well in all climates, and on all our soils, where they can live. There is no other variety of sheep which has been bred to that high degree of perfection, in England. The great Southdown breeder, Mr. Webb, of Batraham, has often received as high as fifty, to one hundred guineas, in a season, for the use of a single ram. Such prices show the estimation in which the best Southdowns are held there, as well as their great popularity among the English farmers. They are extensively kept in the parks, and pleasure grounds of the wealthy people, where things of profit are usually connected with those devoted to luxury.
For this cut of the Southdown ewe, we are indebted to the kindness of Luther Tucker, Esq., of the Albany Cultivator.
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