AGRICULTURAL MUSSUM 1^1 



iu moist p];ices, aic not alike affcctedj some escape fortu- 

 itously, and ilo not imbibe the insects, othefs perhaps in\ 

 hlhQ, but from a Beculiar state of the stomach, discharge 

 iheni without iiijury. Some few, have their livers heal- 

 ^ji\, but generally speaking the disease is fatal. Sheep da 

 not alw-ays waste away with this disorder; they some, 

 rimes die full fat ;. and the experience of SiiMthfield, tends 

 to shew, that it is no injury to tlie mutton. A small pen-, 

 duious bag appears under the ja\vs in tlje latter stages o£ 

 the disorder : \'i,hen this appears, the farmer may proceed 

 to save bis wool, and pelt, for deijth invariably follovvs 

 ihis symptom. 



[p ] '^he fleeces are clipped. Sheep in all parts of live Uni* 

 ted States. Smith's Island excepted, are clipped once 

 1^ year. Tiiis should be done as early as the season will 

 permit, or considerable loss in wool wiii ensue, for the 

 inima! seeks to get rid of its winter's coat, so soon as. 

 spring weather occurs, and will rub otf much wool iq 

 course of a ^hort time. The Smith's Island Sheep are clip- 

 ped in Apill and September, the reasons and practice 

 will be made known to the public, in a meuio;r hcrcafteiv 

 £,ambs unless early and w^ell grown should not be shear- 

 «?d the first season. The practice of shearing lambs has, 

 been reconnnended by J>r. Logan, and other distinguiE^h- 

 ed Agriculturalists, but it a^n only answer in favourable 

 seasons, and w hen the animals arc in fine keep. -.-A wet 

 season I should suppose would be very fatal to shoru 

 lambs. 



[q'\ The state ^ our population and habits IflGj'Cars ago 

 4he state of our population, and habits was thought 

 unfriendly to sheep farming, the state of our country is 

 peculiarly adapted to its encouragement and practice, 

 at this time. 'Tis amazing that the people of the United 

 i^tates should so long have been blitidedj to a sense of their 

 true interests. Strange, that a people who loved tiie 

 siame of Independence, should neglect the praefeicc by 

 W'hichitis preserved. The rage for importation, seem^i' 

 to have made our citi;5ens forget, that Providence bud 

 biassed tlicm with a owintry abounding with every pos. 



