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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



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manufacture into syrup as an entire success. 

 The syrup when well made, is equal to the 

 golden syrup. Most of that we have seen, 

 has been imperfectly made. Experience is 

 necessary in this article of manufav^ture, to 

 attain superior excellence. We have given 

 the experience of many in this article. It 

 will be of service to those who intend to 

 prosecute the cultivation of the cane. The 

 cultivation of the cane and the manufacture 

 of its juice, was an unknown field of experi- 

 ment. It is a marvel that the cultivators of 

 the cane hare done as well as the results 

 show — a marvel to others and themselves. 

 All who have thus tested the plant, speak 

 with pleasure and delight of their success. 



The following will be the results of the 

 experiments the past season with the Chinese 

 sugar cane: — Its cultivation will be greatly 

 extended the coming year in Illinois, the 

 growth of the cane will be better; better 

 apparatus will be provided for expressing its 

 juice, and converting it into syrup; the 

 syrup will ba far superior in quality, as a 

 general fact, than that made the present 

 year. It will be a profitable business; — 

 paying bettor than corn or wheat. The 

 syrup will be consumed in our State, and 

 thus keep in it and in circulation a lar^e 

 amount of money now sent away for the 

 foreign article. We shall dispense with 

 that villainods compound, brought to us 

 from a distance, of "green flies, dead rats, 

 occasional non-descript lumps, which some 

 have supposed might be bits of little nig- 

 gers, and which goes under the names of 

 "Sugar House," "Reboil," and "New Or- 

 leans Molasses." 



We have an abiding conviction that the 

 syrup of the Chinese sugar cane will yet be 

 converted into the best sugar. 



THE GEAZIER. 



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'The "begasse," or stalks of-lhe Chinese 

 Sugar Caae, after the compression of the juice, 

 have been converted iu Masaaehusetts, into good 

 wrappiflg paper. 



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 |g@" A large importation of Llamas from 

 Peru, is expected in New York. Tlaey are of 

 the variety from which the alpaca wool is ob- 

 tained. 



History of Fine Wool Sbeep. 



The following, which we extract from the 

 speech delivered by Hon. J. Collamer, "on 

 the Tariff and Wool interest," in the U. S. 

 Senate, February 26th, will be found high- 

 ly interesting to all classes of readers, and 

 especially to fheep breeders. It is in reply 

 to the suggestion of Mr. Hunter, of Vir- 

 ginia, that we did not raise fine wool in this 

 country. — [Vt. Watchman and State Jour. 



There are no fine wools in the world, 

 raised anywhere on this earth, which are 

 not all from the same family of sheep. By 

 fine wool, I mean such wool as is sometiiji^g 

 called spinning wool, which is spun and wove 

 into broadcloths and kerseymeres, especially 

 those which are required to take a finish ; 

 that is, after they are woven and fulled, 

 there is a face raised upon them, by either 

 carding or teaseling, and then they are 

 sheared and pressed and calendered, for the 

 purpose of making a finish on them. That 

 can bo done only with fulling wool. Now, 

 where do the fulling wo*ls come from? I 

 say they are all from the same family of 

 sheep. 



At the period of our earliest acquaint- 

 ance with Spain, there was found a certain 

 breed of sheep called merino sheep. We 

 do not know how early they were there. 

 W^ have seen inklings that they were there 

 at as early a period as the Romans had con- 

 trol of the country. Where they come from 

 we knew not; but the word "merino" 

 means "over the sea," and it was connected 

 with the idea that these sheep came over the 

 sea, BO that probably they were not in- 

 diginous to Spain originally. This is the 

 family of sheep out of which all the fine- 

 wool sheep of the world were produced. 

 For a number of centuries these sheep were 

 entirely owned by the nobility and royal 

 family of Spain. They were pastured ani 

 driven north in summer, and south in win- 

 ter, so that they were always kept on green 

 fields. They roamed south into Andalusia, 

 and^, north into Castile. For many centmr- 

 ies men were prohibited, oader the most 

 severe penalties, from carrying any sheep 

 out ef the kingdom. A man who exported 

 a sheep was sentenced to the galleys for life. 

 None of these sheep were obtained in the 

 rest of Europe. In 1784 or 1185--I will 

 not be exact in the date, but at any rate be- 

 tween 1180 and 1190— the King of Spain 

 gave a flock of these sheep, forty in num- 

 ber, to George the Third. The English 

 King gave him, as a royal present in re- 

 turn, six English coach horses. These 



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