The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-02-01
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81 (From The :. Wool Growcr.')
Ssit Wool Growing.

ss::ble system. We have. therefore,
Y nrgedsupon them, from time to time,
an increase of their nocks of sheep.
Il Our own experience and observation
have satisfied US that there is no kind
obtaining that is so generally proita-
bic as raising sheep and wool. 1t
! matters not whether you arc upon
tito bleak mountains Of Vermont or
( IN tile fertile plains Of Texas, upon
y tie prairics of the West or the now
solitary{hills and mountains Of the
sSonth--cvcrywhcrc ana anywhere
the sheep will live and thrive, and,
with proper care, pay moro for the
labor and capital invested than useful
and economical modes which have
/ been given lis to convert the vcycta-
ton OF the farm to money. We're
it$tor. the FIRST time now presented to
ms, wesehould consider the sheep one
4sof the most wonderful animals ma
.ture has produced for the use Of man.
Its annual growth of wool, So admir-,
ably calculated for Luman clothing
and .usetinevcly portion Of the globe
ITS sskEin and Ssh, and, in many lo-
s.Galities rs kali which there is
30 slittles@aste or sollittle loss. For
.attleast seven years of its life it will
give an annual fleece each year to the
valne Of tho carcass, and the yearly
increase will benearly or quite equal
toatho $cost4of other animals, the COW
comes nearest to the sheep in tho
pro6t}itsrctnrns to the farmc, if well
It wih pay fes itself each
year By tho milk il yields, and dcfray
also the cost of l;enp p;;:+.; :s, ,------ --~----
Is there auy branch Of farming or
any other kind ofegitimate business
that will yield fer a series Of years a
profit of 10 per cent? We assume
that there is none. The very idea
that a profit of50 per cent. ccn!'l be
realized in every branch Of business
would set the whole capital Of the
! country in motion. Farms would be
sold, merchants would sell of their
E; stocks, bankers close their banks,
and, indeed, everybody who hnd mo,
ney to invest would rush into this
gold mine.
We ever, without fear Of contra
diction in truth, that there is hardly
a locality in the whole Union, where
any kind of farm animals can suhsist,
8that the sheep, if properly attended
/ to, will not give net profit Oh the
Investment Of at least 80 per cent.
and that, with the management Of
farms,it will give GONE go to 40 per
cont.
That there is no danger Of ovcrdo-
ing the business, we have shown re
pcatedlysin previous numbers. The
annual increase of population i'll the
Union requires the wool from three
millions, Of sheep; SO that, to closhc
.hesifrcreascd population, would re.
t5,SseSJ an annual increase Of sheep
854 * IbSSst$s5Sto four millions. But when VIC
como to consider that there is now an
annual deficiency Of over seventy
millions of pounds, there can DC no
doubt that wool growing IS the most
stable pursuit that can be engaged
in. We cannot glut the market, nor
will there BE- any long time that the
market will depressed below point
Of profitable production. On the
\ contrary, it is certain that no farm
product goes less below this point
than wool. has long been source
ofconstant wonder to US that so ma
N.Y. farmers in the western States
neglect the shoep for the very prcca-
arlous business Of grain-growing.-
Every year will give them a crop Of
wool ifthey do but take Gaze of their
sheep. But there is no certainty
. for wheat, prepare the ground ever
sc.well. five have been rightly in
formed, tho wheat raised in the West
& has cost the farmer more than he has
obtained foritin market. Too much
dependence has been placed upon
this most uncertain and expensive
1 crop.
We have tried wheat-growing mp
{ probably as good a wheat farm rs
calsbe foundin Western New York,
ind we8haye also tried sheep upon
the Same farm; ;sandWe are free to
confess thai, althopgh we have good
market Mt soWrsown door, yer wo can
raise q gwen amopntcf money quick
Grand much casjet With d flock OF
sheep thatf with wheat But we find
/ it. well to raise both sbeepsands wheat,
as bystliat means S8c find VIC get a
bctterpr6lit ti.un, to be coliined to