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"What my sheep make," he says, "is just like picking it 

 up." 



Major R. A. Griffin of Horry County, South Carolina, 

 stated by the reporter to be a person of acknowledged skill 

 and success in sheep husbandry, says : " An individual expe- 

 rience of twenty-five years has proven that the increase will 

 pay all expense of keep, leaving fleeces and manure as profit." 



Thomas M. Bealy, of South Carolina, sa}>s : 



" Oats and rye are the only small grains, except rice, that will grow 

 here. For every plough animal on the farm, the farmer should sow- 

 down, sod well prepared, in September, six acres of oats. Upon these 

 oats, he should turn in three to five head of sheep the middle of 

 December. It will give them the best of pasture until first of March, 

 when they should be turned out, and the oats left to head up. Each 

 six acres of these oats should yield feed for one horse or mule twelve 

 months, and kept in order at constant work without a grain of corn. 

 Such farming would make a man rich in a short time." 



E. C. Ethridge of Colerain, North Carolina, says : " When 

 sheep culture receives the attention that cotton now does in 

 this section, it will be the most prosperous country in the 

 world." 



Andrew A. Spaulding, of Rockingham County, North 

 Carolina, born a Scotchman, says : 



" I am from the North, and have been here four years. I believe 

 this is the making of a good agricultural country, if it was properly 

 cultivated by an improved system of farming; particularly, sowing 

 grasses and clover, having a rotation of crops, keeping more stock, and 

 letting the fields lie three years in grass, and sowing down yearly as 

 much as is taken up. By this means, the farmers would be better off, 

 and the land vastly improved." 



A more exact picture of the sheep husbandry of the South, 

 as hitherto pursued, is given by our intelligent correspondent, 

 General Young, of North Carolina, who, as a wool-manufac- 

 turer, has been led to give particular attention to the wool 

 resources of his own State. He says : 



" Twenty years' experience in manufacturing the wools grown in 

 this State has familiarized the writer with the manner in which this 



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