Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1886 — To Forget Misery. [ARTICLE]

To Forget Misery.

Some great writer has written, “The way to forget our miseries is to remember our mercies.” That is splendid in theory, but it is the hardest thing in the world to practice. When a person is perfectly miserable, it is impossible to forget it, and to go to work and try to think of some mercy that has been enjoyed at another time, is simply impossible. The misery of the present knocks all thoughts of the mercy of the past out of the mind of the miserable person, and misery gets in its work. It is well to try and cultivate that idea of forgetting miseries, by remembering mercies, and may lie it will work a little, but most people who , try it will score a failure, and be more miserable than ever. The best way to forget miseries is to go fishing. If you get a bite you can forget the misery till you land the fish, and if you .don’t get a bite you can’t be any more miserable unless you fall out of "the boat. If you get lots of bites it will be nip and tuck between misery and fun. — Gecneae Peck.

J3sr France the best forage is kept for the winter for sheep, and two pounds of salt dissolved in water and sprinkled over the rations is given to forty sheep. In Alsace, during very wet weather, one and a half ounces of green vitriol dissolved in eight parts of water, is given with great advantage to sheep. This is especially excellent where sheep are house-fbd as in italy. Cavour relates that in the neighborhood of Turin sheep are principally reared for their milk, which is converted into cheese. In France, near Lyons, small farmers keep sheep for the same end. The Dishlejs yield 75 per cent., and the merinos 56, of their live weight in flesh. The quality of food needed by stock varies even among animals of the same age and breed, and it necessarily varies to a great extent among animals of different breeds. Upon this subject a farmer in England says it is sufficiently correct to reckon a sheep consuming 2*B pounds of green food, an ox or a cow 150 pounds, a calf 40 pounds, and a yearling 80 pounds, daily. At this rate an ox or a cow consumes as much as five sheep. The latter will require 10,220 pounds, or nearly five ton 9 apiece, the former 54,750 pounds, or reariy twenty-five tons of green food, Ic*** its* yearly maintenance.