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Lowell, Massachusetts, inland, for only two dollars twelve and a half 

 cents per hundred pounds, or forty-two dollars and lifty cents per 

 ton. 



Distrihution of sheep and wool, hay and potatoes, in the United 

 States, according to the census of 1840, with a calculation of the 

 number of sheep to the acre, in each of the States and Territories : — 



Since writino- thus far, an opportunity has been embraced to obtain 

 some information as to the resources of Western Virginia and the 

 Carolinas, We were informed by a member of congress from Pittsyl- 

 vania county that his flock of two hundred go through the winter one 

 year with another at a cost for food of not exceeding ten dollars for the 

 whole flock. It was only yesterday, 1st of February, that, in conver- 

 sation with Mr. J. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, President of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, eminent for his intelligence and en- 

 terprise, as an American farmer of great opulence and influence, we 

 learned that coarse wool, under influences of recent existence, is 

 getting into greater demand. He observed that there were practical 

 farmers in New York, though he was not prepared to say it could be 

 realised, who contended that they could pursue sheep husbandry 

 profitably on land costing thirty dollars the acre. 



