"Many anecdotes could be related of the wonderful instinct of these dogs. I very much doubt if there are Shepherd dogs in any other part of the world except Spain, equal to those of New Mexico in value. The famed Scotch and English dogs sink into insignificance by the side of them. Their superiority may he owing to the peculiar mode of rearing them, but they are certainly very noble animals, naturally of large size, and highly deserving to be introduced into the United States. A pair of them will easily kill a wolf, and flocks under their care need not fear any common enemy to be found in our country."

In the same volume, honourable mention is made of a tailless breed of dogs employed in the care of sheep and cattle in England. We take room for the following, extract,. to impress as far as possible, on the mind of American farmers, the important aid to be derived from dogs of the proper blood, in extending our sheep-husbandry, hoping that when their value shall have beet) realized, measures will be taken by our legislatures to diminish the number of base sheep-killing curs, with which every part of the country is infested.

" Speaking of dogs, I think the Shepherd's dog the most valuable of his species, certainly for the farmer Qur dog Jack, a thorough-bred Scotch collie, has been worth $100 a year in managing our small flock of sheep usually about 700 in number. He has saved us more than that in time in running after them. After sheep have been once broken in by, and become Used to the dog, it is but little trouble to manage them; one man and the dog will do more than five men in driving, yard-ing, etc Let any man once possess a good dog, he will never do without one again.

"The sagacity of the Shepherd's dog is wonderful; and if I had not seen so much myself, I could hardly credit all we read about them. It is but a few days since I was reading in a Scotch paper a wonderful performance of one of these collie dogs It seems the master of the bitch purchased at a fair some 80 sheep, and having occasion to stay a day longer, sent them forward and directed his faithful collie to drive them home, a distance of about 17 miles. The poor bitch when a few miles on the road dropped two whelps; but faithful to her charge, sb0 drove the sheep on a mile of two farther - then allowing them to stop, she returned for her pups, which she carried some two miles in ad-tance of the sheep, and thus she continued to do, alternately carrying her own young ones, and taking charge of the flock, till she reached home. The manner of her acting on this occasion was gathered by the shepherd from various persons who had observed her on the rood.

On reaching home and delivering her charge, it was found that the two pups were dead. In this extremity the instinct of the poor brute was yet more remarkable; for, going immediately to a rabbit brae in the vicinity, she dug out of the earth two young rabbits, which she deposited on some straw in a barn, and continued to suckle them for some time, until they were unluckily killed by one of the farm tenants. It should be mentioned that the next day she set off to the place where she left her master, whom she met returning when about 13 miles from home.

"The anecdotes of their sagacity are innumerable, and truly wonderful

"I purchased a bitch of the tailless species, known as the English drover dog, in Smithfield market, some two years ago. That species is much used upon the downs, and are a larger and fleeter dog than the collie. We raised two litters from her, got by Jack, and I think the cross will make a very valuable dog for all the purposes of the farmer. They learn easily, are very active, and so far they fully answer our expectations.

"A neighbour to whom we gave a bitch of the first litter would tell her to go into such a lot, and see if there were any stray cattle there; and she would go over the field, and if there were any there, detect them and drive them down to the house. He kept his cattle in the lot, and it was full 80 rods from the house. The dog was not then a year old. We had one of the same litter which we learned to go after cows so well, that we had Only to tell him it was time to bring the cows, and he would set off for them from any part of the farm, and bring them into the yard as well as a boy. I think they would be invaluable to a farmer on the prairies. After raising two litters, we sent the bitch to Illinois. I hope farmers will take more pains in getting the Shepherd dog. There is no difficulty in training. Our old one we obtained when a pup, and trained him without any trouble, and without the help of another dog. Any man who has patience, and any dog knowledge at all, can to do all that he can desire of a ago, Mr. Baudury, of Delaware, had d's dog, which he thus described:

|uire after is three times as large as escribed by Buffon, but is endowed

1 qualities: immense strength and usual deportment, though ferocious

I can say, without exaggeration, dogs have been killed in my barn-

1.681xBL, by my dog Montague.

of Montague, with his dimensions: hes from his eyes to the root of his hight inches high over' the shoulders.

entirely white. I prefer that colour story of old Jacob. In fact I had

;, and many of my lambs were born

Montague and his mother, I have very few black lambs.

"The natural instinct of this animal is to guard your sheep against wolves and dogs. No other training is required, but to keep them constantly with your flock, the moment they are from the litter, until they are grown."

Referring to this variety of the Shepherd's dog, G. W. Lafayette says, in a letter of the 31st of December, to the author of these sketches:- "It will be easy, my dear friend, to send you two good Shepherd's dogs, but very difficult to induce a shepherd to quit his village to go to the United States. French people, born in the country, in a certain position, are rather unenterprising, not having yet arrived at the point of venturing to emigrate, even where their interest would prompt them. To persuade one of our shepherds to go abroad, would require a pecuniary consideration out of proportion to any services that he could render, and even then I would not answer, that after arriving in America, he would not become homesick and wish to get back to France. But if you wish to have dogs, it is very easy to send you at the same time instructions, with their names, and particular destination when in use - for in general they are disciplined to guard the flock, one near, at hand and the other far off, and I can assure you they will learn the English language in much less time than their masters would require to be taught a few words of it." Thus the sheep-growing interest is in a way to owe an important boon to one whose name is associated with all that is most glorious and conservative in the history of the country and the principles of the government, such at least as his father fought and bled to establish.