Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18

number in. a day. Sometimes a %'novllo,' or
sheep, will give them a chase Of three or four
miles before they can bring him to the right spot,
The drove selected, the head driver gets a GER
tifcate from the Justice Of Peace that he has
examined the marks, and that the cattle are
sold BY the true owners, with whfeh he starts
for town, sometimes $50 or 900 miles, travelling
very slowly, and sleeping on the grass near
them. Great care must be taken that they do
not mix with herds as they pass along, as there
are no fences or bitches to separate ones land
from his neighbours. Arriving at the outskirts
of the city of Buenos Ayres, they pass to the
great sailing establishments, where they are driv-
en- into a pen. A lasso or moose is thrown
over the horns, and by a windlass the animal is
drawn up to a post, where a man stands, and
with a sharp pointed knife pierces the spine,
back Of the horns-the animal drops upon a
rail truck, and is drawn off to the skinning
ground, where the hide is taken off, the beef cut
from the bones and hung up to drain, Preparato-
ry to sailing, and the talIow all taken out, all
within five minutes. The hides are sailed and
shipped, principally to England the beef is sal
ted and then dried, and shipped in bulk to Bra
zil and Cuba the bones, horns and hoofs are
shipped to Europe; and the hair from the tails
for mattresses, and the sinews of the legs for
glue, arc exported 10 The United STATES. About
SOC, 600 cattle are annually killed for the beef
which is cured for export, and about 200, 600
are killed, and the beef either steamed out for
the fat, or thrown away. The export of hides
from Buenos Ayres is 200, 900 per annuln.
Those for the United States are the lighter kinds
that come from the interior States of the Argen-
tine Confederation. The richest cattle owners
are Nicholas Anchorena and his brother Thorn
as,-who sell 10000 each year, and have a
bout 300, 900 and so, 1000 horses. There are
several who own over l0O, 000,-and the coun-
try remaining tranquil and in peace, the num-
Der would rapidly increase, The other States
of the Confederation are not so settled, but have
$500, 900 cattIe,-and the Republic of Uru-
quay and Southern part of Brazil Rio Grande]
have 5000, 00C more, making in the country
near the La Plata, 1850, 600. The export
of hides to Europe and the United States is a.
bout 2 $500, 900, annually.
Sheep have been much neglected until within
fifteen years past. Formerly they were consid-
cred as worth but a few cents each, and the sto-
ny of their being used to burn BRICK with, in for
mer times is true. The common wool is now
worth, when washed, about six cents the pound
Within fifteen years many persons have turned
their attention to importing fine sheep, and eros
sing them with the sheep of the Pampas.-Over
to., ,La,.ool c.IJ Ilz-Jal ..o... zLao. Lo.o
been brought to the country from Germany and
the United States. The pure blood sheep born
in the country, and taken care of, deteriorate
very little in the fneness of wool, and some Of
the sheep that are crossed three quarters, or
seven eighths full blood, produce very fine wool.
The largest sheep estate is that Of Mr.. Sheridan.
an Irish gentleman, where there will be one
hundred and fifty thousand SHARED this year, all
of them from one half TO full blood merino
This estate is about fifty miles South of Buenos
Ayres, contains seven leagues square of land
and is called "Estancia de los S%ajones," or "Es
tate of the S%axonies, 1T being devoted entirely
to the raising of sheep, which are divided gen.
orally into focks of 5000 to 5000, each. A
man or boy on horse back, always accompanies
them. They require but little care, beyond
letting them out of the pen, and driving then
back, every day in the year, The soil of the
Pampas is impregnated with s~altpetre, and tht
water is brackish. To this is attributed the
, absence of foot rot and other diseases among
sheep, The shearing season commences thu
middle of October, the shearing being mostlJ
done by women. Some of them will shear
fifteen, and even twenty sheep in a day. The
level nature of the country, and the absence o
running water make it impossible to wash the
wool on the sleeps back. 1t is. rolled up al
sheared, and, with considerable dirt, put into
carts, which take it to town, where it is valued
and shipped, The greatest drawback 10 the
producing Of wool on the Pampas, is the small
burr which adheres to the wool. 1t is the sect
J of a species of clover Of which the sheep arr
5 very fond, and in ONE parts Of the countr,
there is so much of it, as to render the wool o
little value. A small shrub that grows Two o
three feet high, produces a burr as large as
, marble, which is ea'ily taken out. The names
and tails of horses feeding among this, are fire.
%quently an enormous mass Of burr of man,
pounds weight. The common wool of the coun
try is generally washed after shearing, it beinl
S of little Importance to keep the feeces entire
: The wool washed at Buenos Ayres has a harsh
cripsy feeling, arising from the water. TIL
\ South-down sheep are hardest, and increase tn
: fastest. Don Faustino Xemenes has go, 900 OF
his estate twenty miles from the city, but gen
orally the proprietors have crossed with Saxony
The wool from Cordova, one of the interio
States of the confederation, is free from burr
e and a much cleaner kind than the Pampa wool
y There was exported from Buenos Ayres the pas
r season 20, OOO, 900 pounds of wool, of which
two thirds went to the United States. This wa
) not all the product of that State, as part of i
y came from Cordova, Entire Rios, and the Re
: public Of Uruguay.
Horses of the Pampas are a small race, origi
e nally from Spain, They are most excellent sad