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for the best rams. The Prince Lichnowsky has the finest flock; he 

 has 8,000 sheep and sells his surplus every year for 40,000 rix dol- 

 lars. Thus you see an immense revenue is created when it is done 

 on a large scale, and that Saxon sheep are lost in Saxony itself. 

 What must be the effects of the Saxon blood in the United States, 

 when the importations were made principally by speculators? I 

 consider that the Saxton cross have created millions of loss to the 

 United States. 



Cashmere Goats. 



It enters into my plan to keep a certain number of goats with 

 each flock. The goat is a much more intelligent animal than the 

 sheep, (though the sheep possesses higher intelligence, but it can 

 neither be cultivated nor discovered till you have overcome their 

 timidity) he is more attached to man; with a few well trained goats 

 at command, a shepherd may lead his sheep where he pleases. Sheep 

 always follow lead; sheep are ruined by being driven more than 

 anything else, besides the goat gives a constant supply of milk, and 

 as long as the cow, and is valuable to give an additional supply of 

 milk to fine rams and ewes, and to those that the ewe cannot push 

 forwards. Under these circumstances there might be cashmere goats 

 in the flock. Mr Ternaux and the French government were at 

 considerable labor and cost in first finding and then procuring 

 these goats. All are aware it is from their hair that the far famed 

 much coveted cashmere shawls are made. Mr Ternaux, a celebrat- 

 ed manufacturer in France, succeeded in making shawls that could 

 not be distinguished from, and superior to the real cashmere, from 

 the hair of cashmere goats bred in France. They have these goats 

 at the Royal establishments in France, and no one at one time could 

 obtain them, but by an order signed by the king, and they were 

 only given to people of eminence and experienced agriculturists. 

 When I was in France, Charles the Xth gave me two of them, 

 male and female. They were beautiful creatures, and used to fol- 

 low me all over the farm. I imagine they can be got now with 

 less diflficulty, and many private persons must have them. I do 

 not attach any particular importance as to the profits, for they give 

 but a small quantity each of that very fine hair of which they 

 make the cashmere shawls, but this class is abundant, and may be 

 an auxiliary, and if goats should be kept, perhaps a new manu- 

 facture might be introduced into the United States. In that case 

 they would be highly profitable, and sell at very .high prices. At 

 all events their clip would be more valuable than any sheep. 



