The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28

the expense of increasirg the number of one descriptiOniOf slaves, to perpefuate the bond age of another If an application should be 1 made t0 Congress for t!i:s purpose. hope it will be met in q manner which will convince the shareholders, that the principles of self preservation require them to change their pOl- icy, and endeavOr, by kiGd treatment to keep the slaves quiet until their emancipation can be effected. What parent, who is deserving of freedom himself, would consent that his son should become military slave, for the pur- pose of holding the negroes in perpetual bon dage If there must be an army for such a pupose, is it not reasonable that it should be wholly composed of slave-hoders and their sons,-and ofsuch only of these as are OppO- sed to the abolition of slavery!
 Translated from r "BulLsin des Sciences Agyscoes" for July, 1927.
 SHEEP AND WOOL. ! Sweden was the first nation that imported merino sheep from Spain. The earliest at- tempts to improve the native breeds were un- fortunate; but ih l7l5 the efforts of the Swe- dish minister were successful Merinos were introduced into Saxany in 1765. The number first purchased, waa ss9. Saxony has attain ed to greater degree of perfection in this branch ofindustry than any other nation. In
 
 Spain these were the first that appeared in Austria. The attempts of Prussia to intro >dnce mernoes, were not successful till ISl6, Whenthe king made large purchases in France. The French government purchased S67 me rinOes in l786, and placed them at Ramb0e- Illet. They have since spread over the king dom. It was not until 179O that merinoes were imported into England They had ma ny prcjudices and much opposition to en- counter; they have not been extensively prop ogated in that country. The English love fat mutton, and prefer those breeds which will furnish them with the finest meat. They import nerino wool from Spain and Saxony. italy has never attempted to improve her na-N tive breeds.
 M. Ribbe endeavers to prove that there is greater profit in crossing native sheep with mrrinoes, than in forming hocks entirely of ihe latter
 1 According to the experiments of Doctor Parry, who is merinO cultivatOr in Eng land, the fifth cross brings the wool of the ! progeny to the same fneness as the meri- noes.
 1 The various sorts of wool are coarse or fine, long or short. hard or soft, elastic or brittle, round CT fiat crisped or not crsped. The fleece should be thick, and fit bt. well filled with oil, it Is a sign of it's excellence. The hairs or flores of merino and Saxony wool, should be round, even, bright, pliant, not breaking easily, and ofsuitable length. When wool nnitcs these qualities, it is called in Sax | ony, Electoral wool l The wool of sheep is nothing but crisp ed hair Tn some varieties it resembles the hair of oxen, and in others the hair and wool l are mixed.
 The flaments of merino wool should be well crisped or waved the fneness of the fleece may he determined from the number oi these curls and from their smalIness. Wool ofa superior quality has commonly 20 of these little bends. If mcrno sheep are not shrarfd, the wool continues to grow for seve- ral years, but its growth dimnishes every year, until it entirely ceases in the sixth, or at the latest in the eighth year, when the ex- trtnities perish and become brown. The small races of sheep produce more and better wool than the large ones. Sheep with broad heads do not yield so much2as those with slender heads. MerinOes at their birth are covered with little locks or tufts of cnrled woo! about as large as grain of barley: the smaller these locks are. the finer the fleece Will be and the closer they are together, the more abundant will be the wool.
 The same work contains a review of a German work on sheep and wool. by J. c. Rihbe,-pubshed at Prague, Bohemia; from which we have translated the following. save what is enclosed in brackets. The author adopts the OpiIion of I.nnaus. that all the different kinds of sheen " nich ex. ist are derived from common stock, the O. Dis Argolis. or the wild sheep which inhabits the rocky mountains of Asia and Greece The largest sheep in Europe is the breed of Flanders, which the Dutch imported from In dia about tw" c'tirie, ago. The smslles; race is that of Scotland. [M. Ribbe refers to the HibrrQian she"p--a small breed, which weigh from 4 to pounds per quarter when fat, and yield about one pound of wool of various colors. These small animals fre quently carry 4 or horns. This breed was imported into Scotland from Denmark at a very early period. There is now a race in Denmark which have four iiOrns.1 The na- tional sheep of Hungary have. in both sexes, straight horns. l2 or IA inches long. The wool is 5 or inches in length, and so coarse thet it is ft for nothing hut blankets. Iceland has two sorts of sheep. one large, the other small. Their wool is brown, and the inhabitants do not shear it,but pull it off, most cruel operation. The Icelanders make great use of sherp's milk.-These animals live all the year exposed to the severity ofthe weather. and their principal food in the win- ter IS the moss called Iceland moss, which