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induced to direct their attention and inquiries to the State ; and there 

 is no doubt of the facts presented being found to be as stated. 



The profits of sheep husbandry are not now, as heretofore, depend- 

 ent mainly upon the fleeces ; but the discoveries of science in this, our 

 enlightened day, enable the growers to offer their mutton in the mar- 

 kets of Europe as sweet and as fresh as it is found in our own city 

 shambles. 



JOHN A. YOUNG. 

 CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 8, 1878. 



MARTIN'S DEPOT, LAURENS COUNTY, 



SOUTH CAROLINA, Dec. 22, 1877. 

 JOHN L. HATES, Esq., Secretary of the 



National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Boston. 



DEAR SIR, I am requested by my friend, Governor Hampton, to 

 send you some details of my experience in sheep husbandry, in which 

 I have all my life been engaged, in this State, Georgia, and Texas. 

 From my early manhood, I have personally known, and visited in their 

 homes, the most intelligent wool-growers and sheep-breeders of the 

 North and South, such men as George Campbell and others, of 

 New England; and Richard Peters and others, of the South. Dr. 

 Randall, of Cortland Village, N. Y., was for thirty years my friend, 

 and an authority to whom I always had recourse ; and whose most 

 valuable work, " Sheep Husbandry at the South," was written at the 

 special request of the late Governor Allston, of this State, to encourage 

 wool-growing in South Carolina. From all sources, at home and 

 abroad, I have sought information, and have obtained the best exam- 

 ples of the various breeds. In fact, sheep husbandry has been the one 

 occupation I have preferred above all others ; and I have no hesitation 

 whatever, after long experience, in affirming it, as my fixed belief, that 

 it might be made the most valuable industry of the South ; and for the 

 successful pursuit of which, in all its varieties, this section has more 

 facilities than any other portion of our country. I will note down 

 facts in my experience, as they occur to me ; and you can arrange and 

 use them as you choose. 



We are not far from the central portions of the State. 



The country is a rolling upland, with a light-gray soil and heavy 

 clay subsoil. 



The prevailing grasses are the crab and Bermuda, and wild clover. 



