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lameness to which sheep are subject. This is here named the “ black- 
foot” and is probably the same affection which is designated the “ fouls” 
in Mr. Morrell’s valuable work, (The American Shepherd,) and which 
is also briefly alluded to in Blacldock’s Treatise, without any name. 
Nothing very definite respecting this disease is given in books, and the 
information I am able to gather in this district is far from being full and 
satisfactory. According to the current accounts it is a lameness similar 
to and frequently confounded with the foot-rot although it is entirely 
distinct. It is sometimes so severe that the sheep does not attempt 
to stand upon its feet, but hobbles about upon its knees and feeds in a re¬ 
cumbent posture. It is caused by pasturing on lowlands and disappears 
spontaneously and without any medication on removing the flock to dry, 
mountain lands. It is said that instances have occurred in which shar¬ 
pers acquainted with this disease have taken shameful advantages of 
those who were ignorant of it, and have obtained valuable flocks at a 
great discount, the owners supposing them to be dangerously diseased 
with the foot-rot, whereas the more knowing purchasers by merely dri¬ 
ving these sheep to a mountain pasturage in Vermont, have at once re¬ 
stored them to perfect soundness. 
CONSUMPTION OF WOOL IN THE COUNTY. 
170. Woolen manufactories .—A few statistics showing the extent of 
the manufacture and consumption of wool within the county, remain to 
be given, to complete the history of this branch of our industrial pursuits. 
There are thirteen woolen manufactories in operation in the county 
at the present time ; one at Union village, and another on Indian river 
in Granville, having been burned within a fewjjyears past, and not yet 
re-built. An establishment intended for a larger business than any of 
those now in the county, has been erected the past season (1849) at 
Fort Miller, but is not yet in operation. The location of those factories 
now in operation, and the amount of wool annually consumed by each 
is about as follows: 
On White Creek, at White Creek village, consuming 9,000 pounds. 
On Owl Kill, near North White Creek village, 
do 
4,000 
do 
On Batten Kill, at Eagieville, in Salem, 
do 
20,000 
do 
do 
Shushan, in Salem, 
do 
15,000 
do 
do 
Clapp’s Mills, in Salem, 
do 
10,000 
do 
do 
East Greenwich, in Jackson, 
do 
35,000 
do 
do 
Galesville, in Easton, 
do 
30,000 
do 
On Moses Hill, at 
Argyle village, 
do 
10-,000 
do 
On Hudson river, 
at Sandy Hill, in Kingsbury, 
do 
10,000 
do 
On East Creek, at South Hartford village, 
do 
10,000 
do 
