=SZ2 " Manylarthen say it does not pay keMantc'ek Old in I*a.; 644, thereto tveryoften in the ti&t. can haq ei le bow it pays to wither three years *idsix manthi; gig any $7 for the: three' fleeem and then selling the, -tbr But, I think it must be quite" profit able is to keep a steer the eame of time and then sell him fin $5O. Such a steer will Oat as much all eight or ten Merino sheep. But the truth iewe cannot expect to make anything by keeping stock of any kind unless we keep it well; it must be gaining all the time. If we let, a , machine lie idle, all that we lose is the interest on the money which , it cost. But an an imal cannot be kept idle. It must eat every day; and it gains nothing ; we lose all the food and the interest on the value of tbe animal machine besides. But many farmers not only keep them for weeks and months together without their gain ing anything, but it not unfrequently I happens that the animals actually decrease in weight. It has to live on its own flesh and fat—which is cer tainly, a very expensive food. Even in the case of well pigs, which store up more flesh and fat for the food than tiny other domestic animal; for c7cry pound of flesh and fat we get in the animal, they eat about five pounds of food. They use four pounds to live t on and give us one pound of flesh) And when we have got this one pound, how excessively wasteful it into feed it to the animal and have worked over again ; and yet this is precisely what thousands of farmers are doing to-day with *ems, sheep and pigs.. No wonder that - keeping stock does not pay." But good stock, fed liberally and with care and'udgement, will pay better, all things considered, than any other branch of farming. Good meat brings a good price, and is always in demand. It is the " Scallawags " that are hard to dispose of, and always at a loss— a loss to the producer and a loss to the consumer. Those why buy such meat get little besides bones and wa ter. The poor animals have had to live on their own fat and their nutri tious juices. ' The first step in keeping good stock is to make the land sdry And clean. The next is to feed liberally, and this will insure good manure, and that in its turn insures good_crops. It is very well to say that a "peck of clover seed to the acre is the cheap est fertilizers,' and that by its free use we can dispense with manure. I do not dispute the truth of this prop osition. No one thinks more highly, of clover than I do. But it only tells half the stbrt. Clover makes good food and good manure too. An ani mal will tako out the food, convert it into valuable products, and leave the manure behind. Onr aim should be dry, clean land, more'clover and rich grass, and better stock and more and better manure. It cannot be too often repeated,: however, that the value of manure depends on the food and not on the animals. A rawboned steer, if it has the. same food, will make as rich ma nure as the best Short-horn in ,the herd book ; and the droppings of a Merino sheep living on clover hay and oihc4c are just as valuable as those frot is Cotswold: But this is the poiut c We cannot feed clover hay and oil-cake to a Merino with half the profit that we can to a Cotswold The former is adapteclto live on compara tive