588 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



and there contemplate the fruit of a policy which fostered the enterprise of this 

 Father of her manufactures. She has 16,617 agriculturists, and within her 

 bosom non-agricultural producing consumers of the fruits of her fields, and 

 orchards, and gardens, 21,271, or nearly three consumers for one producer ! — 

 And again: while 1,239,797 people of Virginia, have, as customers, manufac- 

 turers the annual value of whose products is only $8,349,218 ; the 69,110 people 

 of Rhode Island have among themselves the capital and the citizens producing 

 to the value of ^8,640,626. And again : while the Virginia farmers have to 

 travel with their produce over a surface of 61,000 square miles, to find and sup 

 ply their consumers, who produce these $8,349,218, the Rhode Island agricul- 

 turists find the customers who produce a greater value of manufacturing within 

 1,200 instead of 61,000 square miles ! Thus the Virginian must, in the average 

 and aggregate, travel over 60 times the space. If lime is money, as it must be 

 with every industrious man who deserves to be called a man, is it not. importan' 

 that he should elTect his exchanges, that is, sell and buy, in the smallest space 

 and in the shortest possible time, that he and his wagons and horses may be ira 

 proving his machine of production at home, instead of wearing out his wagon? 

 and teams, and wasting his manure and his substance on the road, in the work 

 of exchange, which eats up half his produce? The time that he spends on the 

 road, the Rhode Islander, having brought the consumer to his door, spends on 

 his farm — pruning his orchards, soiling his cows, planting his potatoes, digging, 

 ditching and draining, and filling his barn-yard with muck, &c. Ask you, then, 

 what benefit it is to the farmer to show him the effects of a policy which make? 

 men congregate instead of scattering ? And as for the brief memorial of Mr. 

 Slater, has the reader of the Journal yet to learn that we deem such men far 

 more worthy of honor, and of being held up to the emulation of our young men, 

 than all mere warriors, from Genghis Khan down to Abd-el-Kader. 



SHEEP DOGS. 



DOG LAWS THE PROTECTION OF SHEEP FROM DOGS. 



A FRIEND writes us from Columbia, S. C, that he has lately again "lost up- 

 ward of one hundred sheep by the depredations of sheep-killing curs. It has 

 quite disheartened me. We must have a dog law." 



We have repeatedly before referred to this intolerable nuisance in the South— 

 sheep-killing dogs. What a practical exemplification is above presented of the 

 extent of the evil ! One of the most spirited improvers of Agriculture in South 

 Carolina— a gentleman who has been at much pains and expense to introduce 

 improved breeds of sheep into that State— finds himself in a night robbed of his 

 property— arrested in his career of improvement—" disheartened," perhaps, from 

 making any future efforts. 



Is South Carolina willing to throw away the benefits of Sheep Husbandry— 

 recently demonstrated in our pages to be of such incalculable utility to her— all 

 to enable individuals of a very peculiar taste, to say the least of it, to surround 

 themselves with an army of vagrant, worthless curs, to eat up their masters' and 

 other men's property? 



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