SHEEP HUSBANDRY 



IN TUB 



UNITED STATES, 



A SEKIES OF LETTERS TO E. F. ALLSTOtf, 



OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



LETTER I. 



EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON THE HEALTH AND WOOL-PRODUCING 

 QUALITIES OF SHEEP. 



Introductory Remarks. ..Wool-Growing and Manufacturing Statistics of the Southern States compared 

 trith those of New-York... Effect of Warm Climates on the Health of Sheep. ..Sheep in the Southern 

 States below latitude 32. ..Effect of Climate on Wool-Producine Qualities of Sheep on the Quantity ol 

 the Wool... Weight of Fleeces in the Southern States indicated by U. S. Census of 1840 Important Oinig- 

 gions in that Census Other important Errors in it. ..Table of Weights of Fleeces in Four Counties where 

 they average highest in each of the Southern States and in New-York Latitude, Topography and Climate 

 yf those Counties... Warmth of Climate conducive to the Production of Wool Reasons. 



R. F. W. ALLSTON f .Eaq 



Dear Sir : That spirit which prompts communities and States to at- 

 tempt to render themselves independent, so far as the supply of physical 

 wants is concerned, of other communities and States, is an eminently 

 proper one, up to certain limits. Beyond these, it degenerates into mere 

 sectional selfishness, as deserving of reprobation in the community as in 

 the individual nay, more so, for it militates more widely against the in- 

 terests and happiness of mankind. Agriculture supplies the most of our 

 physical wants which are not administered to spontaneously by Nature. 

 In this great department of human labor,it is not difficult to decide how far 

 the inhabitants of each particular region are called upon to rear from the 

 earth what their wants require. Nature herself has, in the distribution of 

 soils and climates, both indicated and limited the production of many of 

 the agricultural staples, by geographical boundaries, sometimes topically 



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