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hanks into good warm jeans or calamanca, a four treadle 

 jeans. 



In addition to the benefit of clothes, a small flock of sheep 

 will supply a sweet and toothsome food when satiated with 

 the briny fries of bacon. Nothing eats like lambs of our 

 own raising, and lamb and peas is a dish fit for kings. 

 How much better when it does not come from the butchers. 

 In fact, when the butcher has to supply it, it seldom makes 

 its appearance on the table. But from our flock it can obey 

 the will of the farmer, and a regular interchange of slaughter 

 between farmers will keep fresh meat as often as required, 

 without the danger of spoiling from the heat of summer. 

 The surplus wool gives a convenient supply of pocket change, 

 (we are speaking of small flocks), at a time of the year when 

 the farmer has no crop to sell. The peculiar fitness of wool 

 for market is shown by its ease and cheapness of transporta- 

 tion. It can be sent to any market at but a slight cost. 

 Nothing in agriculture is so easily carried to market without 

 injury and so cheaply. It can be carried from San Fran- 

 cisco to New York for one and one-half cents per pound, 

 while wheat or bacon would cost its entire value to transport 

 it so far. There are important considerations in selecting a 

 product of agriculture. It gives great facilities for the 

 home and brings the foreign markets into competition. It 

 must be kept in mind, however, that wool will not bear 

 baling for transportation like cotton. Its fulling property 

 prevents that. If baled, it might become so inextricably 

 tangled in the fulling process that it would be worthless. 

 The fibres of wool are different from hair. While the latter 

 has bristled or barbs on its sides, the wool is made precisely 

 like a stack of thimbles let into each other, and the edges 

 of the thimbles have beards by which they stick to each 

 other fibre by these hooks. While the wool is ordinarily 

 pressed, these hooks do not get hold of each other, but if 

 brought together very firmly, and especially if rubbed, these 

 little hooks will catch into each other in such a manner they 



