54: FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



sheep, of which. I know little ; and sixty were landed 

 at Philadelphia, with the character of which I am 

 unacquainted. Having determined to settle in Amer- 

 ica, I returned to Saxony, and spent the winter of 

 1826-'27 in visiting and examining many flocks. I 

 selected one hundred and fifteen from the celebrated 

 flock of Macherns, embarked on board the ship 

 Albion, and landed in JSTew York June 27, 1827. In 

 1828 I received eighty more from the same flock, 

 selected by a friend of mine, an excellent judge of 

 sheep. I first drove them to Shaftesbury, adjoining 

 the town of Hoosic, where I now reside. On their 

 arrival they stood me in $70 a head, and the lambs 

 half that sum." 



The fires of speculation might have died out and a 

 reaction ensued, when the unsuitableness of these 

 sheep for our climate and systems of husbandry 

 became apparent, had any time been given for cool 

 reflection. But the year 1825 brought another of 

 those pecuniary revulsions which periodically sweep 

 like desolating tornadoes over our country. This is 

 not the place to investigate its causes. The friends 

 of the " American System," as the friends of high 

 protective tariffs were then called, attributed it to our 

 excessive importations from Europe, and these views 

 prevailed so far that the tariff of 1828 was enacted. 



F. S, Tariff Laws since 1824, 



The tariff of 1828 imposed a specific duty on wool 

 of four cents per pound, and in addition thereto an 

 ad valorem duty of 40 per cent, until 30th of June, 

 1829, when an additional duty of five per centum 

 was to be added, and that amount annually, till the 

 additional duty ad valorem amounted to 50 per cent- 



