Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-11-09
Domestic CEotEa-Profits of Sheep.


To FARMERs.-Mr. JOSEPH HoRsFALL, who
carries on fuiing, weaving, spinning and dres-
sing cloth at Millville, has left a roll of fulled
cloth at our office for delivery to Judge Cox.
A moments examination of the cloth will sa-
tsfy any one that it has undergone some skill
full process by which to keep out cold weather
There must be more wear and comfort in home
made cloth, such as this, than there is in any
store cloth. 1t is much heavier, and the cost
Is but trife more. Mr.. horsfall is building
more perfect machinery for spinning and wea-
wing, when he will be prepared to take in wool
on the shares, and pay cloth in exchange for
wool.
We have not Mr.. Horsfal's scale Of charges,
but if any have wool that they want spun, wo-
ven, coiored and fulled, or cloth to be coored
and fu!led, We will receive and forward 1t to
Mr.. Horsfall without any charge for storage or
trouble on our part and we will guaranty that
his work and charges will not be objected to-
We add few words upon the profits of
RAISING SHEEP.-The wool product of FIVE
or six sheep will supply most any family with
two or three suits of warm clothing There
is nearly twice the wear in home made cloth
that there is in store cloth, for the latter has
come to be about half cotton. 1t is often the
mere re-product of old clothes, baggage and
s,reet-rags, ground up and twisted or felted in
to sheets then cut and basted Or pasted togeth-
er, and CLOSED over with gum varnish. The
common clothing usually sold in shops, though
seeming cheap, may have undergone years of
service upon the backs of negroes and diseas-
ed la2aroDi. Such are some of the reasons
for urging upon farmers the absolute duty and
manifest interest for raising wool and rnanufac-
turing their own clothing. The cost, apart
from outlay for stock sheep to start on, is a
mere trife in time; and the more sheep far
mer keeps, the less will be the relative ex-
pense.
CLIMATE.-There can be no finer climate
than ours for sheep. Cur winters are dry, and
seldom have we any fogs or cold rains in sum-
mer or fail seasons. What cold rains we haze
are in the spring, after the new fleece of grass
appears when there is no danger. Sheep do
not suffer from any sort Of weather, when the
grass is new and juicy. The season when
ewes should lamb, is always dry, and lambs
do not easily perish in dry weather, however
cold.
LANDS for GRAztNG.-Along our streams
and rivers, are SUGGESTIONS of hills and son:.Iuo
bluffs, generally barren of timber, but of Goat
fertility, and clad from early MAJ I'LL late oc-
tober with grass equal i not superior to tim
othy 1t is well known that sheep require
green heritage or grass in winter. This may
be Supplied in the same way in Wisconsin that
eastern farmers supply it: by leaving lot of
timothy meadow stand without moving, it falls
and protects the second and third crops which
rise afterwards. We have seen green timothy
grass, thus protected, in mid-winter in Wis
consin, equal to any we ever-saw in the best
wool-growing regions east, and in latitude 80
or 400.
WATER AND AIR.-Sheep require pure
spring or running water, and clear dry at
mosphere. We believe no country west of the
Allegheny mountains has dryer atmosphere,
or purer water than Southwestern Wisconsin.
Our high lands and rolling prairies are not
shro1ded in fog over once in two years, accor-
ding to the best of our recollection. Our maps
show, and all who have travelled over Grant,
Iowa and Lafayette counties, represent that
not stagnant pool, marsh, lake or puddle OF
impure water is to be found. All passers-by
and through the mining region notice the ra-
pid flow and crystal clearness of our waters.
There is every reason to believe that this part
OF Wisconsin has a climate, quality of grass
and water, equal to any in the world for rails
ing sheep and stock generally.
1t is remark of strangers, and the common
observation of residents, that sheep are remar-
kablY large and free from disease in Wiscon-
sin. We have known focks of 100 and up
wards being kept together year after year with
out the ordinary diseases, or even symptoms
OF the commonest complaint affecting them.
aTWe are requested to give notice
that tho district Cobool g.. T.r4