The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1825-12-01


dure the hardships and drudeery of folding
and bear the weather equal to any South
| Down, and have some ycarlings highly
crossed and very fine woel, weighing from
IA to 16 pounds per quarter" Mr.. Sutton,
of Eaton in Cheshire, makes the following
communication: "hbout five years since
began the Mcrino cross on Ryland ewes; !
Twas then in possession of "a flock OF Lei
cester sheep, which | had good reason
| to think were some of the best in the coun-
| try, as they had taken several premiums at
our Agricultural ows."-The crossed Me-
rino wool sold that year for So. Cd. per pound,
the Leicester for Is. 2d.--the former much
the greater weight. This determined me
to sell the whole OF my Leicester flock, AL
I now keep tnly the crossed Merinocs
! The sheep which have hitherto tried feed
quick, make beautiful mutton and good iia-
vored. Several gentlemen i'll this neigh
borhood having heard much said against 1t,
desired to have quarter OF some one year
old wcthers was killing; and having tasted
it, unanimously declared that they never
eat better mutton of its age" Mr.. Allen
of HAYNES, Bedfordshire, sends this account
of his fock, amounting to 400: "For many
years | kept on my farm Leicesters, and
then South Downs sparing no expense to
!.
servaton and conviction, | changed to the
Merino about ten years ago, in which breed
! have continued ever since, finding them
more healthy, and having fewer losses than
with either of the other breeds. My NUT
ton of the various dips, is highly approved,
and obtain the highest price going for the
best mutton of other breeds, now l-2i per
h."
The secretary, after giving the opinions
and calculations of Mr.. Thrap and Mr..
Birbeck, corroborating those already cited,
but which are too long to be inserted here,
addresses himself thus to the president of
society: "Mr. Thrap and Mr.. Birbeck arc
gentlemen whose statements must carry
with them SO much weight, that further au-
thorities need not be rcsorted to. Upon
the whole, therefore, 10 doubt remains but
that the Merino race and its crosses may he
so improved, as ultimately to fulfil your pre-
diction, sir, by carrying "rhc finest wool
ing the five qualities required by Sir John
Sinclair in a perfect breed Of sheep form,
fleece, fat, .fesh and ,faror."
WOOI..
The most profitable occupations for our
yeomaury owning highland farms, is the
rearing of Merno sheep. Full blood Me
rno wool washed, sells to the manufactu-
ers at from fifty to sixty cents per
pound. We miss the butter and cheese
from some of the farmers on Connecticut
river, (and they brought the very best Of
those artcles)-and see them frequently
pass us ON their way to market with loads
of wool A few towns on Connecticut river,
will sell the present year from $4,000 to
100000 worth Of wool. The rearing of
Merno sheep and the production of wool,
is business that Cannot be orcrdone, any
more than the culture oi cotton in the south
ern states; and if we do not greatly err, It
viii be a business which will yield ready
money and wealth not less to the farmer of
the North than the cotton business does to
the planter of the South.-.E H. Pat.
THE ARABIAN HORSE OF THE DESERT.
Erfracted from " "Heudc'sJ9Yrpey orer Land from
Lidia 10 Ehglaad, IN 1917"
"The horse, like the camel, in Arabia, is
trained very early to submission, to absti-
nence and fatigue he is commonly mounted
with light load before his second year, and
with his age the weight and labour incrtas-
es, until he is at last brought to endure the
! most excessive toll, on very small quanti-
tv of the most common food that may pre-
) sent itself. In march of thirty hours
which we made across small desert be-
tween Mosul and Nissibin, though we rode
almost continually, during that time oui
horses had no sustenance whatever, besides
few handsful of an inferior kind Of barley
and the drv stubble they could snatch up il,
their unrcnitting course. have indeed OBJ
served them frequently feeding with the
most apparent relish on such food as the
: dry burnt up shrubs we passed upon the
:. road and have often seen bare stump
! (the thickness perhaps of my thumb) de-
voured with the greatest ayidity. by these
! patient, nardy and spirited animals.-lt is
: in this facility Of subsistence, and in thei,
hardness, no less than in their beaI.y and
docility that the pure Arabian Of the desert
NAV be distinguishe I'd from every other race
In other countries the horse of the highest
blood is most delicate; with the Arabian i
is directly the reverse, and Captaia M'Don
aid Kinnier informs us, in his topographica
0 memoirs Of Persia, that he once rode ver,
: Young animal of this valuable breed full q
: miles without even once coming to stop, o
: dismounting fron hi blck.-The best an;
: most assured market for exportation j
= Bussora, where hundreds are usually brough
j to be conveyed to our settlements, Th
e current price OF a very superior Arabian. ol
v the spot, is about 1000 Iven crush, or nea
t 1901; (stcrling; y and when more has bee
: given, it has usually bcento induce some un
e willing worthy Arab to part with favorit