Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-06-14
Cows, Sheep and Hogs.

Extracts from the B-Monthy Report OF the
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
Cops.-rhe general scarcity OF butter ana
cheese, aud their very high prices AZ this time,
show that the home markets r them demand
larger supply. The increase OF COWS since
1859 has been 329, 7SI in the loyal States but
with these, as with other stock, the decrease IN
Kentucky and Missouri sho s that the increase
for the rest OF the loyal States has been greater
than this general increase indicates. The re
ported decrease OF Missouri is, however, less
Tor cows than for most other stock, The gen
erai lnJr ass OF cows from 1850 TO 1860 Was SO
per cent, whilst our tables show 1t to be not
quite per cent. in the loyal Stat s between
1859 aud 1864.
The table published in the last report, page
81, shows that whilst the increase OF butter last
year was but tenth, the lncI ase IN price Wa
three tenths. Tue exports OF butter to foreign
markets have been as follows
1861 s4l9Oi45
1852 6,u9Sl
1858 7,Hbbb
And those of cheese az follows
1861 tS,lslI7l
1861 4t73 $50
1868 56OSss4
Surely, in all these statistics our farmers
must see that too much care cannot be given to
an Increase of cows aud - butter aud cheese
manufacture.
IN
80 gra3yIug as the increase in sheep BY our
table It is 9,242 49, or about I'll per cent,
since 1859, mOst OF it being III The last three
years. All the stock raising States have par
uclptted IN II, except kentucky and Missouri.
But the returns from the first show present
Increase and ia the latter, that the decrease oc
casloned by the war has been arrested The em-
igratOn Ot thAstoek from one State TO another
bus been unusually great, Tor the want OF cot.
ton created SUCH demand lOr wool Tor home
and factory Manufacturer. that every farmer,
great anu small, sou. he 60 hAyea aJck OF sheep,
M At be had nooe previously, or TO have his old one
enlarged
Ihe Increase during this spring will add from
four 70 five millions 10 the number Ia January
raising tue whole number TO nearly thirty mil
Lons,O double what 1t ags in 1859 IN the loyal
States.
But lltle need DO said al TO the future mar
kels Tor wool aud mutton. Until pea is con.
quered, aud alr crop oil cotton Is raised, wool
viii be iemuneratve, even after it falls c0nGd-
eraDly ia price after peace aud before the pro-
duetlJu o. such cotton crop, Tor ths general de-
holt IA textile material Is great, as shown in the
last report. But with peace will cease the gov.
OF ment demand for cotnlng, whilst the scarcity
Of beel ana pork will nuke the dclDaod lOr nut.
ton insore good prices tor It Whether, then,
the old ewes, now kept longer for breeding par
poses, should be httcned and sold for mutton,
and such wethers as have been kept longer than
customary, on account Of tie high piice Of WOOL
isa question that will demand the consideration
- Of All farmers and a careful wlch,rg OF politi
cal events. We snail keep them veil advised
OF every laet connected with these sul ices aud
of sech Legislation BY C0ngres, as may tend TO
more ifmiy ~ absh wool production w tie
United States
II, as our supplira Of wool increase. the in.
porls Of loreigu wool shall be checked, and the
introduction Of foreign wo1llen cloths be ss.
ened. 'he woclgrowef may rest 10 better curl.
~, thln II he Is TO be subjected to tho eompeii
non Of these, o. be was PRIOR to The rebellion