Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-07-02
AGRICUL TURAL..


REARING OF SHEEP IN VIRGINIA
1t has long been intention call tie notice Of tLe
Virginia public. TO method Of advancing the public
prosperity, which, ia the slow bu sure progress Of our
manufactures has heretofore been unacc0untablv ne
elected We alude to the rearing Of sheep in guanii-
es sufficient to supply the of the various wooen
factories already IN operation, preparing We
need not remind readers of the facilities which Viz
gina every where presents for the successful prosecution
ofhs business She has millions of acres Of exhausted
lands, nov lying Idle and yielding not cent of revenue
To the owner, which might be devoted this purpose
I'm order 10 encourage such Of our farmers as really feel
disposition to fall in with oar suggestion we present
certain statements which have every reason TO regard
as iounded IN tact and which afford encouragement
to The peculiar industry under consideration
The Virginia Noullen Company consumes annually
seven hundred Thousand pounds of woI. Sx-sevenths
o this or slxhundred thousand pounds are purchased in
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore The number
OIL persons employed Is 2O6, who receive in cash. Der
month, sum not under $1,000. The Company turns
ont 10000 blankets and coaings, and 100000 wards
OF fannes and cloak Innings by the year Its blankets
are believed to be without superior in any market in
the world, and is annes. certainly are equal to any
aluacured any where As proof once of their ex
ceilence, and OF the capacity manufacture here a.
cheapy as elsewhere, it may be proper 10 state that these
materials sustain successful competition with Northern
goods IN their markets, and that thew have even
been sold to Wholesale merchants there and from them
Bought by our own merchants the stamp being changed
uuel ue Impression lal lhey would do better the
North The important fact is thus established that we
can manufacture goods cf this description here as cheap
iy, not mere cheapy than they at the North and
the Inference that manufactures will rapidly increas can
not be resisted Indeed assuEed that within an
other year, any in Nirgin. who had 600 900 III,
of wool for sale could dispose of it here.
is 1t not shame that while we have so much land in
virginia So admirably adapted to raising sheep sinole
Virginia Company should be compelled to resort to the
Northern cities for the raw m1teral Nay not to the
Northern cities alone, to foreign countries For
Within the last eighteen months, this single COMPANY
has imported from the barbary States from SMYRNA and
from South America, not less than SOC GOO pounds Of
wool And that too. when The lands which should sun
ply the heeceS yielding absolutely nothing to the.own
err
HE species OF goods winch have been manufactured in
Virginia with most Success coarse wooens blankets
&c Now, we learn, that Virginia grown wool is incom-
paraby the best for manufactures of this sort The
fleece larger, the wool heavier and in every respect
better adapted to coarse fabrics
II rom The success of the present Companv there is
every reason to believe that should the business of wool
growing be seriously attempted BY anY con dtsabe por
ton 81 onr armerS the manufactures would rapidlv in
crease. In very short time Virginia would be able To
supply herself with all her and medium quality of
wool goods, and leave large surplus to be sold else
where and reappear among in the shape of money
Zach mandatory would afford employment to mum
Der otpersons who would be large consumers of aori-
cultural pnducss. Employment might thus be furnished
Tor great proportion of the labor to be found on
every plantation consuming lis products and bringing the
faHner annually in debt It has been successfully de-
nonsrated IN South Carolina that slave labor is as well
adapted as any other to manufactures.