DISEASES OF SHEEP 



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Lowell, Massachusetts, inland, for only two dollars twelve and a half 

 cents per hundred pounds, or forty-two dollars and fifty cents pe^- 

 ton. 



Distrihution of sheep and wool, hay and potatoes, in the United 

 States, according to the census of 1840, with a calculation of the 

 number of sheep^to the acre, in each of the States and Territories : — 



Pounds of 

 wool. 



Tons of 

 hay. 



Total. 19,311,374 



1,-165,551 

 1,200,517 

 941,906 

 183,830 

 889,870 

 3,099,235 

 9,845,295 

 397,207 

 3,048,504 

 ()4,404 

 488,201 

 2,538,374 

 025,044 

 299,170 

 371,303 

 220,353 

 175,196 

 49,283 

 1,010,V32 

 1,786.847 

 3,085,315 

 1,237,919 

 050,007 

 502,205 

 64,943 

 153,375 

 7,285 

 6,777 

 23,C39 

 707 



35.802.114 



691,358 

 490,107 

 509,395 

 63,449 

 420,704 

 830.739 

 3,127,047 

 334,801 

 1,311,043 

 22,483 

 106,087^ 

 304,7081 

 101,309 

 24,018 

 10,969J 

 12,718 

 171 

 24,ti51 

 31,233 

 88,306 

 1,022,037 

 178,029 

 104,932 

 49,083 

 586 

 130,805 

 1,197 

 30,938 

 17,953 

 1,331 



Bushels of 

 potatoes. 



10,248, 1 08 J 



10,392,280 



6,200,000 



5,385.052 



911,973 



3,414.23« 



8,8ti9,751 



30,123.614 



2.072,009 



9,535,063 



200,712 



1,036,433 



2,944,000 



2,009,239 



2,098,313 



1,291,360 



1,708,350 



1,030,190 



834,341 



1,904,370 



l,055,0^5 



5,805,021 



1,525,794 



2,025,520 



783,708 



293.008 



2,109,205 



264,017 



419,008 



234,063 



12,035 



No. ot 

 acres to 

 a sheep. 



108,298,060 



50 

 10 

 12 

 10 

 10 

 3i 

 2i 

 24 

 24 

 33i 

 33i 

 33i 

 50 

 100 

 143 

 240 

 2.50 

 50 

 50 

 25 

 10 

 33i 

 100 

 125 

 1,000 

 250 

 5,000 

 14,2.-5 

 2,500 

 100 



Since writintr thus far, an opportunity has been embraced to obtain 

 some information as to the resources of Western Virginia and the 

 Carolinas. We were informed by a member of congress froni Pittsyl- 

 vania county that his flock of two hundred go through the winter one 

 year with another at a cost for food of not exceeding ten dollars for the 

 whole flock. It was only yesterday, 1st of February, that, in conver- 

 sation with Mr. J. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, President of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, eminent for his intelligence and en- 

 terprise, as an American farmer of great opulence and influence, we 

 learned that coarse wool, under influences of recent existence, is 

 getting into greater demand. He observed that there were practical 

 farmers in New York, though he was not prepared to say it could be 

 realised, who contended that they could pursue sheep husbandry 

 profitably on land costing thirty dollars the acre. 



