DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



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of pounds yearly, of such kinds as are considered in this country the 

 choicest produced ; say full-blood Saxony, and Saxony mixed with 

 Merino. We are very fastidious in the selection of our wools, both 

 as regards the blood and condition; and, in consequence, we are in 

 the habit of paying prices which many manufacturers think absurd. 



" I am clearly of the opinion that no branch of agriculture promises 

 better than the culture of wool, and I sincerely hope more attention 

 will be given to it than has been paid for the last few years. 



*' Your's, Samuel Lawrence." 



According to the following table it will be seen that the aggregate 

 amount of capital in 1810, in woollen manufactures, was under six- 

 teen millions ; here is to be an addition, according to Mr. Lawrence, 

 of one million in a single new branch of it. 



Name of State, &:c. 



1. Maine 



2. New Hampshire, . 



3. Massachusetts, . . . 



4. Rhode Island, 



5. Connecticut, 



6. Vermont, 



7. New York, 



8. New Jersey, 



9. Pennsylvania, . . . 



10. Delaware, 



11. Maryland, 



12. Virginia, 



13. North Carolina, . . 



14. South Carolina, . 



15. Georgia, 



16. Alabama, 



17. Mississippi, 



18. Louisiana, 



19. Tennessee, 



20. Kentucky, 



21. Ohio 



22. Indiana, ■ 



23. Illinois 



24. Missouri 



25. Arkansas, 



26. Michigan 



27. Florida, 



28. Wisconsin 



29. Iowa, 



30. Dist. of Columbia, 



Total, 



SouTH-DOWN. — Let those who would properly appreciate this ex- 

 cellent race, banish from their thoughts the diminutive mottled original 

 South-down stock of the olden time, with the idea of which the name 

 is apt to be associated in the mind, and contemplate the portrait here 



