ASmCULTUUAL MUSEUI^ CS 



Vm^ iron, roUlhgand nail factory of EUicott & Co, on the 

 Patapsco, with a capital of ;■<;' 50,000. 



From tliese facts, the Committee do not hesitate to In-' 

 for," tbat ih6 Report of the Secretary of the Treasury 

 must fall i-av sliort of the real pioi^ress made, and of the 

 cajjital embarked in domestic manufactures through the 

 Union." 



IVc in Virginia, are behind our sister States of the 

 north — in this patri(4ic career. But the good work has 

 commenced. Spinning machines on a small scale, arc 

 winding their way into the counties, to the South an fi 

 ^Vest of us. The " Swift Creek Cotton Factory,^ 

 within a few miles of Petersburg, has SCO spindles in 

 mouon, and in a few weeks will have 300 more — exclu- 

 sive of gome preparatory machinery, on an improved 

 plan. Unquirtr, 



Extracis from Lord Soimrvillc^s Essay on Sheep. 



With a vicAV to the improvement of our Short.wo^! 

 Sheep, and those more particularly belonging to our 

 mountainous districts, hilhcrto neglected, 1 have thought 

 it a duty incumbent on me to call the attention of my 

 countrymen to this point, and have therefore ventured to 

 publish a short essay on a si'ij^ct, which every man, at 

 all acquainted with rural or political economy, must ad- 

 mit to be of the utmost importance. 



The breeds of sheep in this kingdom may be arran- 

 ged into two classes ; those which shear the short, or 

 clothing, and those which shear the long, or combing 

 wool; of the former we have specimens ni the South 

 -Down, Hereford and Norfolk breeds ; and of the lattci.* 

 in the Lincoln and Leicester. The quantity of ilesh in 

 each class, follows the character of the wool ; the short 

 woolled sheep being close in the grain as to flesh, con- 

 sequently heavy in the scale, and liigM flavoured as to the 

 Iftstei the polled long woolled sheep, more open and 



