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can only be separated by cutting up. The wool hat is an 

 instance of the fulling process. It is oue of the most inter- 

 esting items in regard to wool to recapitulate the many pur- 

 poses to which it is applied. It goes into every form of 

 clothing for man and woman. The finest gauzy fabrics of 

 female wear are made of the same material with the coarse, 

 heavy shoddy of the hod carrier. It covers our feet, hands 

 and heads; it covers our floors and beds. There is scarcely 

 a single article of commerce, from gun wads to the heavy 

 cordage of ships, but has wool in its construction. With 

 all the uses to which it is applied there will never come a 

 time when it will not remunerate the producer. 



Again, every one knows that land must be renewed or it 

 will cease to be productive. I take the broad ground that 

 nothing will renew lands cheaper and more effectually than 

 sheep. 



England has 32,000,000 sheep, and Scotland, much 

 smaller than Tennessee, with more mountains than any 

 State in our Union, has 5,000,000. They are kept in such 

 quantities chiefly on account of their fertilizing qualities. 

 The population of that country is so enormous that the land 

 is taxed to its utmost capacity to feed its citizens, and with- 

 out sheep it would fall still further behind than it does. 

 They do not destroy the grass roots like other animals, their 

 bite being sharp and light. They dispense their manure 

 evenly over the surface, so that all alike is benefitted. The 

 sheep will consume and finally eradicate from the soil all 

 noxious weeds, there being but few that are not eaten by 

 them. And, by the way, it is a well known thing that ivy 

 or laurel will kill sheep eating it. There is a great deal of 

 it growing in mountainous countries, and they must be 

 guarded from it. A gentleman of Davidson county informs 

 me that he lost a fine flock of sheep from eating the common 

 ground ivy common to all damp woods. This must not be 

 confounded with the former ivy or sheepkill as it is called, 

 also called calico bush. It is a laurel (Kalmia Angusti- 



