The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-23

such internal remedies as will tend to pu.
fity the blood, or applying como other mild
caustic, TO keep the feet healthy and sound.
and promote healthy condition of tho an
imal.
When wo open a fair account with the
wool-growiDg interest, the balance sheet
shows large credit in its favor. when com.
pared with other branches of farming pur.
sued among US; but no rejecting man can
TAIL 10 discover that our system of wool.
growing is susceptible of great improve
mont; and this brings US to consider sheep.
breeding, the kinds of sheep, and those
most profitable for our purpose In the
early history of the Reserve, tho first sheen
were middle wooled varieties introduced
from Now England. Little or no care was
taken beyond what was necessary to sub.
sst and ptotec, them from wolves and dogs.
and small flooks wero kept for mutton, and
tho wool for liDsoy woolsey. and other do.
mostic purposes. Owing, no doubt, to tho
manner in which they weie kept, and the
neglect in breeding they detoriorated into
!, an inferior race. called Native sheep, grow.
ing thin, light flecces, Of an infer ior quality
OF WOOL Their thin, open feeces, failed 10
protect them from chilling. in the change
abio winter season, 10 which but little care
1 bic food; consequently, large proportion
of some flocks died in tho spring from dis
cases contracted during tho winter, and this
fatal mslady was at times denominated the
Rot. At length ,fine-wooled sheer, ,descendcd
| from and crossed by the Humphreys In
por;ation, wero introduced. Many farmers
ridculed and rejected thom for years; but
!; they proved exceedingly valuable in cross
I ing with tho native breeds, by improving
| TIE quality and quantity of wool, tho form
OF the body and compactDess of fleece,
thereby rendering them more hardy and
better adapted to the climate, and iucreas.
ing the profits of the farmers. From time
to tlme, our f1ocks havo been improved by
| valuable accessions of coarse and fine
wooled varieties, to the present day; s.il.
in comparison with many thousands of sheep
in The New England and Middle States, they
| show sad lack in the important enterprise
of sheep-breodiDg. All farmers owning
sheep bave the requisite means, but many
lack in energy, and confidence 10 adopt
measures which would evidently greatly on
haDce the value of their focks. When we
fleet that animal and vegetable bodies
are mainly composed of tho same simple |
substances or eemente, and that comb. |
nations OF these elemepts, subject to an !
endless variety of changes, compose the
structure o: the animal body, VIC look, in
this age of progress. for still greater i'm.
provemonte in tho breeding of sheep. This
business evidently requires close attention,
and no man can excel as a skillfDl and sue
cessful breeder, without careful observation,
study and practical application. -...
The sheep, All inhab,,ant of every quarter
of the globe from Iceland to the Torrid
Zone, has been doIoesticatod In every nge
OF the history OF man, and varies exceeding
y in size, form and texture of fleece, with |
the climate. soil and face of the country,
ana mode 70 treatment, from the brown. !
hairy sheep of Tropical climates. to the
choice Merinos of the Imperial focks that
range tho mountains of Spain, bearing
abundant evidence of tho important infiu.
eDces of climate soil and culture.
But wo must be ever governed by our
own circumstances in selecting the kinds of
sheep most profitable for our use. Nut
ton sheep. consisting of nnmber OF the
long and middle.woOod varieties, are oyi
dently adapted to our climate with proper
care in wintoiine; but require. rich and
abundant phsturagc; and, as our own local.
~ is remote from grent city market, we
are inclined to tho opinion that they are
not as profitable as other varieties. when
kept iD large flocks, though, in limited {
numbers on highly cultivated farms, they ,
evidently make good return. The fact is
patont that the climate of the Northern
portion of the United States is copgenial
to the growth of fne.woo sheep, and
that the Spanish sheep, moro liable perhaps
than any other domestic animals to undergo
greater changes from climate and domestic
Influences, are moro fully developed in
Of H. Qnn &c al, Al
any other portion of the world. This vari-
ETY. of sheep, according to some historians,
was introduced into England as early as
raised in tho rich, ever-verdant pastures and
humid climate, they are at this day repre-
sented by the Sout hdowD. In 1893. they
we're introduced into Sweden. where uncon.
genial climate has affected The reverse, and
they are changed into a small, and in all
respects Indifferent animal. They we're in
troduced into Saxopy in 1865, with widely
different results, for from them spraDg tho
famous Saxony Sheep,the wool of which was
renowned for its fac clothing properties.
and the sheep were regarded as superior to
the imperial focks of Spain. But il was re-
served for an American to bear tho palm o:
superior sheep-breeding in this variety,
from the Old World to the New. The CO.
MUS of American enterprise would no longer
acknowledge the supremacy which was ac-
corded 10 European focks by our own
country meu. and imperiously demanded on
the other side of the water. With her tri-
dent she smote the Green Mountains o.
Vermont, and the American Merino. of su.
perior excellence appeared in the focks of
Mr. George Campbell, of that State. We
learn from the Patent Office Report of
1868, that MIR. Campbell shipped sWall
flock of Merinos to Hamburg in that year, I
entered them at the great International
Fair held at that place, in class contain
ing $50 entries and in which the best focks