The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-12-25
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The sheen having been herded DUNG ."e
%, +,,e valleys of the mountains, ;
,s-c carly in the spring, driven III
=. rio hacicndas of their proprle- /
=, ,rI,irb for the most part, IN the inithe-
,.f'cv of the Rio Grand del Nortc.-
III. ,be sheep are grazing In the noun
- and while being driven to ana t:o'''
- winter quarters, they loose quite
,arae por:ior Of their fleece among the oHsu-
90 and prickly shrubs Of the country. III
driving 4 large flock through some patches
of thorus, ii is net uncommon Tor the sueep
IA lose from one to two thousoad OF thefr
wool. This is left hanging on u pu7h.s
,rt is gathered up by the Poems properly
s,c,-,4 ,,l,an TO the merchants OF freight
.rs ene-a ccd in the commerce bet"eeh w"
N.xico and this city, sold for triiilns sum,
Ifor the ignorant and lazy nativts, or 'sreas1
ers have no idea OF the value oil 'he "ooi'J
,,d h, those traders is forwarded TO Nahsas
c;ir Last summer trains arrived mere
I.rinoinz in as many as many as ninety
Thousand hounds of this wcol, gathered IN
This manner. Shearing sheep is never done,
-houcb some of the more scientific and IN
dus,rious oCthc Poems will take off fleece
with = common butcher kUife-rathcr te-
djons and savage operation
Though large shipments Of Msxican wool
ere annually made to this city, none has yet
hen received coming froIi the hands Of the
,hcarcr-it his al! been gathered from the
bu hes.
On the arrival OF The nocks from the
mountains which i, generally in the month
ofMnrch or April, would be the proper time
for shearing The sheep are then clean and
healthy, and their WOO! is long and III good
60 dillon.
The work Of shcarinr could easily be done
" any man accustomed to sheep shearing.
.aa very few hours enclosure could ot
made sufficiently large to hold from two t.
r.ur hundred shcep-as many as company
a.. shearers would care 10 have :" closed up
=: any one time In the meantime the re
hinder Of the flock, say OF sixty thousand
nd be under tic care of t.ie dogs ant
.r-phcr,ls. By this process the whole fioIh
aid be shcarcd by company oil twenty
.xrerienced workmen in about thirty or Tor
t. laws IT, however, company OF capt
lists should conclude TO engage IN TINS bus
mess, they would probably find it TO thei'
;Ivautacc to employ a much larger force @
sp-arers. as they would probably wish t.
obtain the flceccs ofseveral hocks before Tor
var.!inS the wool to the States.
1t this season OF the year the sheep Will
vice! 4 fleece on an Average of about two
rar rranaceJu.r 1T, can be obtained from The
I-opr;ct, Is a; mere nominal sunni some
distances for nothing. as the sheep are
Known t. thrive much better after being
tl.cced, which IS all that their owners care
asaut-as they raise them for their carcass
.ai the better and fatter the mutton, the
better satisfied are their owners, fer this Ii
meat that they are extremely fond OF.
Indeed We may state :hat the writer has
himself been told by Proprietors of large
fo,ks, that he would be welcome 10 the WOO
to; the shearing, AS neither himself or any
of his men made use of the wool or pelts.
except for making saddle blankets for pack
mus.
We are all along speaking adviSeI'y, and
with notes in our possession upon thus sub
iect, and we think ourselves safe in saying
that the hceccs could be taken Off and sack
el ready for the wassns at a cost of moi
over two cents per pouCd. To bring it to
this city would cost from three to four cents
more, ana TO boat il from here to St. Louis
about twenty-five cents per hundred pounds
We leave the margin for profit to be made
out b. men more skilled in the. operations
OF commerce and speculatjon.-hansas City
journal.