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Clover is become common every where, while hay is made but rarely, except on such meadows as are unfit for better uses. Wheat is scarce in this neighbourhood, every one cultivating barley, for which they find a ready sale, in the city, as well as for the straw, which is much in demand among distillers and others who keep many cows. Mr. Hoegh, in his chapter on sheep, laments the prevailing custom among the peasants, of selling their best lambs, and condemns alto­ gether the practice of killing them. He holds up the custom of England, where so much mutton is consumed, in support of his advice; whereas, with us, mutton is little known. My host strictly adheres to Mr. Hoegh’s plan,— he keeps all his best lambs to breed.—“ I “ should only rob myself,” said he, c< if 1 pound whatever cattle may incroach upon them, till re­ deemed by the owner, but even to shoot them after re­ peated trespasses, if proper measures be not taken to pre­ vent them in future. The punishment for stealing cattle is justly severe; he who steals, though only a single lamb, is sent into slavery for several years.