THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
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ence and science are both on our side. Whai 
makes your race horses the best in the world, 
may be expected to make your peasantry so 
too. We offer you, therefore, a lair bet. You 
shall take ten English plowmen, and feed them 
upon two pounds and a half of wheaten flour a 
day, and we shall take as many Scotch plow- 
men, and feed them upon the same weight of 
oatmeal a day— if they can eat so much, for 
that is doubtful— and we shall back our men 
against yours for any sum you like. They 
shall walk, run, work or fight you, it you like 
it, and they shall thrash you to your heart’s 
content. We should like to convince you that 
Scotch porridge has some real solvt metal in it. 
We back the oat cake and the porridge against 
all the w'heaten me.sses in the world. We defy 
your home made bread, your baker’s bread, you 
household bread, your leaven bread, and your 
brown Georgies— your fancy bread and your 
raisin bread — your baps, rolls, scones, muffins, 
crumpets and cookies — your bricks, biscuits, 
baltes, and rusks— your Bath buns, and your 
Sally luns — your tea ca’ires, and saffron cakes, 
and slim cakes, and plank cakes, and pan cakes, 
and soda cakes, and currant cakes, and sponge 
cakes, and seed cakes, and girdle cakes, and 
singing hinnies— yourshort bread and yourcur- 
rantbuns — and it there be any other names by 
which you designate your wheaten abomina- 
tions, we defy and detest them a11. We swear 
by the oat cake and the porridge, the substantial 
bannock and the brose — long may Scotland pro- 
duce them, and Scotchmen live and fight upon 
them !” 
Sheep. 
Yv^'e have thrown together below several ex- 
tracts from other papers, on the subject of sheep 
raising and wool, as a new business for the 
South. 
From the South Carolinian of May 15. 
The Carolina Mountains for Sheep 
Walks. — There is not in the world a finer 
country for sheep husbandry than the moun- 
tainous regions of South Carolina. II a few of 
our enterprising landholders, who are largely 
interested in those high-lands, would unite in 
some plan of operations for inducing the settle- 
ment ol respectable emigrants from Europe or 
(he Northern States — -emigrants familiar with 
the grazing business, and wool growing — our 
mountain regions would soon present returns 
scarcely interior in value to the products of the 
lands in the best agricultural sections of the 
State. The entire Districts of Spartanburg, 
Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, with portions 
ot Laurens, Union and York, would afford 
room for many millions ot sheep. 
Sheep husbandry is rendered profita’ole with 
land valued at thirty dollars an acre in the 
hard climate of Vermont, also in Spain, Ger- 
many and England, in which countries land 
cannot be bought at any price; and with these 
examples before us, wtiy should we longer ne- 
glect to improve the resources within our reach 1 
Let us hope that a few of our enterprising land- 
holders will unite their efforts and go ahead re- 
solutely in this good work. We think we could 
refer them to persons who could devise a plan of 
operations that could not fail lo prove largely 
beneficial to all concerned. 
From the South Carolinian of May 22. 
Fine Plock.s of Sheep i.n the viciNiTY op 
Columbia, S. C. — The practical agriculturist 
and genuine lover of rural affairs, would be 
both gratified and amply repaid by visiting tlie 
magnificent flocks of sheep belonging to Col. 
Wade Hampton and Mr. B. F. Taylor, in the 
neighborhood of this city. Those wiio wish to 
be convinced of the fact that we can successful- 
ly raise fine sheep in our Southern climate, 
should go by all means. Examples like these 
are worth more than a heaped up mountain ol 
arguments, theoretically prepared by ihose who 
take interest in advocating such things through 
the medium of the agricultural journals. The 
flock of Col. Hampton is superior to any other 
we have ever seen in any part of the U. States. 
They are pure blooded Liecesters, and Bake- 
well himself were he living, would be proud to 
own them. They cannot have lost much, if 
anything, of their characteristic superiority, if 
wejudgeby .some of his animals which have 
matured. Mr. Taylor’s flock is chiefly Merino 
w'ith a dash of the blood ofihe African or Broad- 
tailed sheep, and they have shown themselves 
to be extremelv fine and prolific. He recently 
showed us the fleece of a buck lamb 14 months 
old, which weighed lOj pounds. Dr. Parker, 
the Superintendant ot the Lunatic Asylum in 
this city, has just shorn a pair of last spring’s 
Liecester lambs, about 14 months old, bred by 
Col. Hampton, and the weight cf the fleecefrom 
the buck lamb was 13^ pounds whilst that from 
the ewe lamb weighed pounds. 
Col. Hampton has shorn all his lambs of the 
present season, and we will make the wool 
growers of the North open their eyes, when we 
state that the average w'eight of the fleece of 
about sixty head, was four pounds each. He 
has done this in order to relieve them from the 
oppressive heat of summer. 
On visiting his flock a few days since, we 
found them in fine condition, without the least 
appearance ol disease of any kind amongst 
them, and what is remarkable, they have kept 
in good order on very short pasturage, which is 
one Ol rhe best evidences w'e -can give of the 
thrift of this remarkable breed of sheep. 
With such flattering results before us, why 
should we despair ol making a great portion of 
our State profitable in this branch of rural en- 
terprise. We have already adverted to the su- 
perior advantages ol our mountain regions as 
sheep walks, and we shall on some other occa- 
sion gather information and give our own views 
upon the propriety of introducing good breeds 
of sheep in themidille sections and lower-coun- 
try of South Carolina. That the whole sand- 
hill region bordering on our extensive swamps 
IS eminently adapted to this business, has been 
fully proven by the success ot the flocks above 
mertioned. 
We should like lo see such flocks obtain 
throughout the State, and we fancy the gentle 
men above named would do all in their power 
to gratify such individuals as might desire to 
make the experiment, by lurnishing them supe- 
rior slock animals, at a moderate rate, when 
their prices are compared with the heavy and 
hazardous expenses ol importing them immedi- 
ately from England or the North. 
John Randolph said he w'ould vvalk a hun- 
dred yards out o-f his May merely to kick a 
sheep. We would go a journey of fifiy miles 
lo admire a good flock. He might have been 
wise in his aversion lo these animals. We 
know we are wiser -in our great fancy I'or them. 
After reading these extracts, consider what 
Mr. Buckley of Yates coun'y, N. Y., says on 
the same subject in a letter to the editor ol the 
Albany Cultivator. 
“I cannot help thinking that the middle and 
eastern portion ot Tennessee, the western part 
ot North Carolina, and northprn part of Geor- 
gia, has greater natural advantages lor the rais- 
ing of sheep than any other portion ol the U. 
States. I spent the summer season exploring 
the mountains ol those State, and may give you 
some further account ot them in future letters.” 
Then we have a letter from Mr. Skinner to 
Mr. Clingman, of the Buncombe district, N. 
C., in which he says ; 
“Well, I am happy to add that two enterpri- 
sing and most meritorious citizens of your State 
have agreed to take measures for the importa- 
tion ol the Alpaca sheep into the mountains of 
North Carolina.” 
In Tennessee they are actively engaged in 
increasing their stock of sheep. Indeed, every 
where they are going ahead of us in Georgia, 
in efforts to rescue themselves from the embar- 
r ssmenls produced by Ute : tale ol the cotto i 
markets. When will our people be aroused to 
a proper sense of their own interest! 
In this connection we cannot omit to call the 
reader’s attention to one of the difficulties atten- 
dant on raising sheep— and no trifling one it is. 
From the Frankfort (Ky ) Commonwealth. 
Doss and Sheep. — A lew nights ago, we 
learn sixty-three choice ewes, selected for breed- 
ers on account ot the fineness of their wool 
owned by our friend Capt. John A. Holton of 
Franklin county, were killed by d^gs. ’ 
The destiuciion of sheep by dogs has long 
been a S(<re evil to the (armers of Kentucky, 
From the best information w’e have — and we 
have devoted much inquiry to the point— we 
calculate that thee are annually about 10,000 
sheep destroyed by dogs in the Stale of Ken- 
tucky. The destruction of 100 sheep in each 
county would give this grevious total. We 
know one excellent farmer, in another county, 
who alone has lost 600 sheep in years past kill- 
ed by dogs. ’ 
The absolute loss of the value of the sheep 
actually killed by dogs, is noi the most serioas 
consideration growing out of the evil. Twenty 
or thirty or fifty thousand dollars loss per an- 
num distributed amongst the farmers of the 
Stale, though inconvenient portions of the loss 
sometimes fall upon individuals, would not be 
utterly intolerable : especially under the consol- 
atory reuiembrance that while one loses his mut- 
ton and wool, the dogs ol others, who are fond 
of dogs, have abundance of delicate food,— 
But the evil stops not here. Hundreds and 
thousands of farmers, owing to the terrific de- 
struction of sheep by dogs, are utterly deterred 
from engaging in sheep husbandry, lir which 
the great abundance of hill lands, now lying 
unproductive, are admirably adapted. 
We have not a doubt that, if the ravages by 
dogs could be stopped, in five years from this 
day, two millions ot dollars worth ol wool, 
grown on lands now entirely unproductive,’ 
would be produced in Kentucky; and the 
amount would be gradually and indefinitely in- 
creased. 
By our laws $8 are paid for every wolf kill- 
ed in llie State. This is designed for the pro- 
tection of sheep; and in that view, we approve 
the policy. But at the same time, we’ doubt 
whether in any one of the last five years more 
sheep have been destroyed in the whole State by 
wolves, than were killed a few nights ago by 
do?s on the farm of Capt. Holton. 
The disinclination of the Kentucky Legisla- 
ture to adopt just measures to stop t.he ravages 
ol dogs, has ever been an inexplicable puzzle 
to us. We have always regarded some provi- 
sion on this subject as demanded no less by the 
public will than by considerations of policy and 
justice, looking to public and private interpsl.s. 
The address delivered by Col. A. McDonald, 
of Eulaula, Ala,, before the Agricultural So- 
ciety of Barbour County, will be found in the 
columns of to-day’s paper. By a perusal of 
which, much information will be received of 
interest to the agricultural portion of our com- 
munity and others. 
Col. McDonald is no^onlya theoretical plan- 
ter, but adopts the best and most approved' sys- 
tem of planting, and never fails to receive a 
greater remuneration for his labor than any 
other planter in this .‘section ot country. He 
has done much fur the interest of the Southern 
planter. 
We visited, by invitation, the Colonel’s gar- 
den, a few evenings since, where we tound a 
fine vegetable garden, filled with aii the vegeta- 
bles of the season, in great perfection. His 
flower garden was arrangen beautifully with 
shrubs and flowers, w'hich no doubt, from ap- 
pearances, has had much time bestow'ed upon it. 
His selection ot fruit trees and varieties of 
grape, are not equalled in this section of coun- 
try. We saw growing luxniiantly, the madder, 
and from the appearance ofihe young plant, we 
do not doubt but it can be raised successfully in 
this climate.— L’v/at/.tffi SkieUt. 
