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T^^EW Ei^ GLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 2-i, 18;io', 



From Ihe ./Imtrtcaii Farmer. 



SHEEP AND WOOL. 



IVhiU Port, Jtdij 30, 182C. 

 Mb Sjci.NNER — The interest you have taken in 



than 10 lbs. ; this will be the result (if reiilize 

 of crosses by sheep producing long and shi 

 wool, similar to such, as is enclosed. A great 

 erage can only be obtained by the most unifo 

 attention to the order of the flock, besides annu 



the future bud produced by drouaht and heat, and 

 the fall of the leaf accelerated hv rain. No am- 

 pulation should be made — it would only increase 

 the evil. This day, tlie 17tli of September, all the 

 buds of my pear trees from whicli the leaves had 



fallen iiave pushed anew, which they oiiyliV not to [the nnprovement of .sheep as one of the most im- ! ly marking tiie least productive iii&ividuals , 

 have done till next .spring— flowers will be devol- portant relations in your editorial charge, and the | sale or use — and what is meant by this attenti 

 oped, and in some cases (ruit will be formed — all [ politeness you luive extended to my communica- I '^ not what many erroneously suppose (liigh fes 

 this is to be lamented— the trees will suftor— the j tions on the subject, induces me to make a farther ing.) but a general regard to their constitiitj 

 iopes of the ne.xt season will be cut off, but the ] offering of the result of our shearing on the 27th I and habits, limited only by our knowledge of th( 

 trees will survive. In most cases, I hope that the of May last. In so doing I trust you'will not con- ] peculiar nature. If such could be obtained, (whi 

 evil will not be extensive, but unhappily, it is I siJer it a mere challenge with the vyin glorious j '^ scarcely presumable in every district 

 more prevalent with Mr Knight's new varieties (anticipation of superiority, but, as has been here- 1 country,) wiih occasional sliifts, uniform .saltiii 

 than with others. This I attribute to the trans- tofore suggested, with the view of bringing out i anJ water at particul.ir seasons. As it ivcm 

 portation from a cflld climate lo one much hotter. ; reports from others who have sheep worth p°ropa- j foot), sheep cannot be better treated, simuner 

 Plants change their habits with clima!»s, but they I gating from, and to compare and estimate their I winter, than in the use of a blue gras.> ],;istiii 

 ch.-;nge them s'oudy. Mr Kniglit's fruits present- value in their different capacities of usefulness.— ' save when the snow ia on the ground ; tiioii h 

 e.Jto our country will ripen earlier than they did | Last year it is remembered that a. small flock in ' or trough-feed must be resorted to, as circumsta 

 ■" ■■liglaiid. This efiect, that sagacious man an- j the state of Marvhnd sheared a greater average ^ ces may require. But I have not, for the li 



as will be seen by his letters to me. 



i-c. vineties of the pears sent by Mr Knight, 



their fruii r!.i^ veur. The Cassiomont has 



by a pound to the fleece?, than any reported, or in- [tliree winters, fed with any thing more t!ian 

 deed any I have known or heard of. They were ''abundance of wheat straw, since there wo 

 of the Friezland, or rat-tailed breed. If these ^^w days at a time excluding them from tli,' 



already ripened m tue g;irdcn of a frie:i ' who is I sheep have wool of good quality, and otlier prop- ' tnre. As it regards uniformitv of keep, it , 

 an excellent ju;lg-e of fruits, and I am happy to i erties corresponding in a reasonable deo-ree, the evident that an exuberant summer's grazm.., f( 

 say ne pronounces It excellent. It ho.vever rip- j owner would but do them justice by giving the 'owed by a dry, coarse and indifferent winieiin 

 ened a month earlier than in England— hut our public a better knowledge of them, tire honora-'will liave a wonderful influence in detcriniati, 

 season is this year as to maturity of fruit, a month ble competition amon>Tst the fine wool rrrowers both the form and fleece of an animal so suscep; 

 earlier ^than usual. I have one variety of Mr ' will serve in part as a stimulus to those who breed ble of change as the sheep, and on the contrat 

 Knight s pears, which promises to be from its size ; more for quantity ; permit me to suggest the im- the most abundant and judicious winter keep 

 and beauty, a great acquisition. portance of giving an additional impTlse to such be lost on them if crowded earlv on voung n- 



JoHM Prince, Esq. of Roxbury, has a specimen ' as feel an interest in raising an abundance of good affordino- little nutrition, or unaccompanied" 

 of the Napolean which is highly praised by the wool for domestic purposes on a valuable carcase, sufficient supply of salt and meal as a condi 



European cultivators. 



I add only one fact — I am informed that a Sco- 

 lytus, (not a Scolytus Pyri) but one of its genus. 



If it is most advantageous for our Eastern, and a t° their stomachs : hence, without the latter 

 portion of our Western country to raise sheep caution, the scours and otlier accompanying] 

 principally for their wool as an article of sale, it eases. But I am getting into a dissertation wi 

 of Its family, is making dreadful ravages this year j is not less important that we should raise it of an ' i^i'l "ot intend. In conclusion, I must exprel 

 in the elms of the London Parks, and juis created j inferior quality on animals, otherwise better suited belief, that most farmers will meet with sin 

 great alarm. Perhaps we may come back, to the j to the supply of our wants, in order to meet the ! success, if they do not overstock themselves ; 



opinion of that accurate physiologist. Professor { demands of our purely domestic manufactures period governed in a measure by the qualit 



Peck, and trace the loss of our pe:ir trees to the ] such being the nature of much of our Southern stock they begin their improvements on, if i? 



insect which he first named, the " Scolytus Pyri 

 To botanists, I shall say nothing new, when I in- 

 timate, that the bite of insects, is far more deslruc- 

 live and poisonous than the direct injury ivhich Ihcy 

 effect. I could write ten pages in describing the 

 extensive, the various, and altogether unaccounta- 

 ble morbid changes produced by the bite of in- 

 sects, whose immediate depredations are very in- 

 considerable, but I forbear to touch a tender ques- 

 tion. J. L. 

 Rorbvry, Sept. 17, ]83(). 



CHRONIC RIIEUMATISJSL 



We are not ready to add to the numbfer of the 

 remedies which have been prescribed for this 

 painful disease, without a certainty that such ad- 

 dition will be valuable in practice. This certainty 

 we are convinced will attend the remedy it is the 

 object of this article to bring before the profession. 

 It is a mixture of eejual parts of the balsam of 

 sulphur and spirit of turpentine. Six drops of this 

 mixture may be given morning and evening, and 

 the dose increased two drops a day until it produ- 

 ces stranguary, when the dose should be diminish- 

 ed a little and continued until the disea-se is re- 

 moved. We have been recently informed of the 

 good effects of this mixture in a great number of 

 instances, and one very remarkable case has fal- 

 len within our notice in which the disease in its 

 worst form vanished before it in a few weeks, al- 

 though the patient had been long using without 

 advantage the usual and other most powerful renie- 

 ■dies for his troublesome and painful malady. i 



[Boston Medical Intelligencer.] 



population as to require an abundant siipjily of will persevere in a judicious selection of rare | 

 strong, warm, cheap fabrick, made with most form first to be observed, then uniting in th 

 economy by every liead of a family, a surplus of fleece length and closeness — from 6 to 8 o^ 

 wool may be vended to our Eastern Brethren, or inches are good medium lengths ; when the: 

 exchanged for some of their wore polished fab- is extended more than 12, it would have a tend 

 ricks. I have thought, sir, in mentioning the facts cy to degenerate into hairy wool, or bcconiel 

 of my last shearing, that it might add something , thin as to be light and unproductive ; and an ( 

 to the interest of one of those useful and agree;:- elusion of all owes that do not prove their v8 

 ble monthly meetings of your Trustees to have be- by t.'icir first fleece. If it were possible to puB 

 fore them samples of wool taken from sheep of the back of one of our large rams, weighino 

 the first shear, producing in tlie dirt from 11 to 1(1,5^ : they sometimes do, from 170 to 200, wool as clI 

 pounds. Seven rams from 14 to 18 months old", , as that of a Spanish Merino, with the length o^ 

 being spring and fall lambs, sheared 11, 11. I, 12, : ^ 12 inches, more than 30 pounds might' be 

 13^1 143-, 10, IGi pounds, an average of more'than tained to the fleece. The nearest approach to t 

 13.J pounds. Rams, wethers, and year old cues, , i" uniting quantity and quality; in judiciouj 

 to the number of 29, sheared 303 lbs. an average : combining length and compactness of fleece, ; 

 of 10 6-16 of a pound. Thirty-five ewes, cither 'secret well worth the attention of every breed 

 with lambs by their sides, or having hart them the I would venture an opinion, founded only on 

 last spring, (with the exception of 7 fall lambs) ''ttle experience, that with a tolerably skilful 

 sheared 234 lbs. an average of G| nearly. Many ' termixture of the close woolled Spanish Meti 

 ewes varied from 8 to as high as 14^. The total j and our country breeds, that sheep of a i 

 average of 64 sheep is 8g- lbs. The "seven ranis' guished variety may be raised, to an extent fj 

 fleeces were sheared and weighed in the presence I and perfectly to meet the demands of every aa 

 of several neighbors and gentlemen of the adjoin- ! cies of manufacture wherein poor wool is reqini 

 ing counties, and the rest, with the exception of ed. This suggestion is not intended in the lead! 

 six or eight medium fleeces, by one of them. A ! to supersede the earliest opportunities of improre- 

 little time back, when our fleeces were thought ' ™ent by foreign, or already discriminated races of i 

 extraordinary at 10 or 12 lbs., anticipations of 15 i sheep. Par from it, if we neglect to profit by tbel 

 or 10 were thought entirely visionary. I am | labours and ingenuity of hundreds who have goj(ft||? 

 clearly of opinion there is .still great room for im- I before us, it will be our own fault. Lest tijjiS' 

 provement, and believe that in three years (bar- | weight of wool here repoi ted should be too tryml' * 

 ring accidents,) individual fleeces will be nearer '' to the credulity of some of your readers, and dpi? 

 20 tlian IG lbs., and an average obtained of more I anticipitions bo utterly set at naught, a furtb^"^ 



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