The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-07-17
INCREASE INSTEAD OF D1MrNrsurSe

THE NUMBER OF Your SHEEP.-This we say to all
farmers with the assurance that they will find
money in following the advice. The wool crop
does not winter-kill, is not damaged by untmely
frost, rust, Hessian Fly, weavi or Army Worm;
whilst cents worth of ammunition or strychnine
will tame the most woolfish dog that assails the
flock. And all dogs found from home without
their masters by night or day, should be presumed
to be after fresh mutton and be thus tanned
Farmers need not fear that there will not be
cash demand at fair prices for all the wool they
can raise whilst the youngest of them lives.
Americans are henceforth to manufacture their
own woolens. The politicians of the Virginia and
South Carolina schools who overthrow with the aid
Of their subservient northern allies, the benifcent
tariff of 1912 just as wool growers and wool
facturies were beginning to reap its benefits have
now given them one that will last. The huge debt
created and to be increased by the civil war they
have brought upon the country, will require for
long years, heavier duties all imports than the
strongest protectionists have asked.
The demand for wooden goods is besides to be
permanently increased. We are for years, probably
for the life time of the present generation keep
on foot average military force of fifty to one
hundred thousand men. That number, probably
the larger number, will be required to hold the
rebel regions in subsection after shall have
quered them; or to protect ourselves against "our
Southern brethren if the traitorious dreams of
the disloyal shall be realized by ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the Union. Each soldier uses up in blankets,
caps and other clothing four times much wool
each year as he would do if civilian. This cause
alone has doubled the price Of wool in the first year
of the war.
Those farmers who have had the foresight to
discover these facts and who in view of them have
kept and well cared for their focks, have since
this summers shearing, reaped golden harvest.
James E. Bonine, of Young's Prairie in this
county, is one of these. Upon one hundred acres
of land, he has kept since last year four hundred
and ninety sheep, and has kept them we'll He
sheared from them in June, two thousand, seven
hundred and twenty three pounds of wool, an
average of over five and half pounds each. One
yielded him seyenteen pounds! He has sold his
whole clip to Messrs. Larzeeres, of this village,
for twelre hundred and ninetythree dollars and
fortytco cents, cash! This gives him for the wool
alone over tscelce dollars for his land. In
addition to this. he has two hundred lambs for
which he has been offered and refused four hundred
dollars. He considers them worth five hundred,
as with the certainty of large demand and good
prices for future clips, they certainly are.
Isaac James and Stephen Bogue, of the same
rrairie, we're also wise enough not to be dscour-
.geo oy last years low prices of wool, and have
recently sold their clips to Messers. Larzelere's,
tne former to the amount of seven and the latter
70 the amount of five hundred dollars. cash.
Let no sheep or lamb be led to the slaughter
."'" every farm is fully stocked. Slaughter The
aogs any blood Offering be required, and
slaughter all with specifies for mutton any way.