APPENDIX, 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Report on the Value cf Sheep Husbandry. Read to the Agricultural Society, Pendleton, 



South Carolina. 



' IN obedience to your resolution, requiring your committee to " report on 

 Sheep Husbandry in the South," they beg leave to say that the resolution 

 would seem to require a more extended examination than could be embraced 

 in a report of an ordinary length. 



They will therefore confine themselves to that part of the subject which, 

 in their estimation, will best show the applicability and value of sheep hus- 

 bandry to our neighborhood and section. 



Although but little attention is given by any of us, to raising sheep, and 

 by none to preparing wool for a foreign market, yet it will be admitted, that 

 cur native stock are healthy, growing to a fair size and produce a fair fleece, 

 from two to five pounds, even under the great neglect with which they ara 

 treated. 



There is, however, one question necessary to examine, and that is, 

 whether the quality and quantity of the fleece deteriorate in our climate. The 

 question has been very fully examined by Mr. H. S. Randall, a very intel- 

 ligent and experienced wool grower in Cortland, New York. From his 

 excellent letters, published in the Farmers' Library, (the perusal of which 

 I take pleasure in recommending to the members of this society,) I draw the 

 following statement : 



" It is known that from Spain (north latitude 36 to 44 degrees) all the, 

 fine wooled flocks have sprung. And that in Saxony (north latitude 50 tc 

 51 degrees 30 minutes) the Spanish Merino wool has been improved ir 

 fineness of fibre but lessened in quantity. In New York (north latitude 4% 

 to 44 degrees) the fineness of the Spanish Merino is preserved and quantity 

 increased. In Vermont (north latitude 43 to 45 degrees) the fineness and 

 quantity of the Saxony wool are preserved." 



South of us, in Madison county, Mississippi, (north latitude 32 degrees, 

 41 minutes,) the wool of the Saxony sheep has been found 'to maintain its 

 original fineness, and increased in quantity. - Recent experiments in Aus- 

 tralia (south latitude 33 degrees 55 minutes) show that fine wooled sheep 

 (the Merino) preserve the quantity and improve in quality of fleece. 



The exports of wool from there in 1810 was only 167 Ibs 



in 1833 .... 3,516,569 * 



" " in 1843 " .... 16/228,400 " 



til 1834, London price for best Spanish Merino, was - - - - 67 cts 



* Australian Merino, - . 100" 



* English wool, ... 48 " 



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