Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-24
VOL, lI,'"''""NO. 48.
Wool Culture.s

oi sheep, winch we conceive to he more GER
tain and profitable business than tho produo.
tion of either cotton or rice The salubrity
OF the mountain regions, the healthy climate
and cheap lands, .re all favorable for this
branch of industry. Add to these natural ad.
vantages that very small capital is REQUIRED
to commence the business, that the stock ia.
creascs will, amazing rapidity, and that tho
cost of keeping is attended with very trif
ling expense, and it is no exageration to state
that small investment would pay lucrative
dividends.
From authoritative statements, we find that
the cost keeping ashcep on'the high priced
lands OF New England and New York is two
dollars per annnm, while in the Southern and
Southwestern States it does not exceed twen-
ty-tlve cents per annum. The fact is also in.
dlsputable that the estimated cost of raising
wool in the State Of Texas is is cents per
pound.
For the last forty years, there has not been
single year in which the average price of
" medium " wool has commanded less than
42 $40 cents per pound, while the prices for
unwashed woods for the year 1866 ranged from
36 to 4G1cents pound, and that, too, in year
when its annual production yielded one hun
drcd million pounds, and the value Of the
clip amounted to nearly fifteen million dol.
lars.
Tho exorbitant tariff exactcd on foreign
wool and wooilens-about 80 per cent.--is also
a discrimination exceedingly favorable to wool
growers. Although the production of 1866
was heavy, yet it was not sufficient to meet
the increased demand of the manufacturing
interest, nearly thirty-three millions of pounds
OF manufactured woollcns having been impor-
ted last year. The high rate of duty must
rII oI,o 4
the additional supply needed must either be
made up by home production, or the deficit
cause an advance in the price of the raw ma
terial. In either event the producer will be
benefited
AS the sentiment Of the age halls every
man as a benetac!sr who calses two blades of
grass to grow where but one sprouted before.
SO will be regarded the farmer and grazier who
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prise.
How TO GET A TON OF GUANo WITHOUT
BUYING IT.-A correspondent of the "Coun-
try Gentleman gives the following account
of hen manure as fertilizer:
"On cleaningout my hen house last Spring,
| had more, than wagon load of clean hen.
manure. i drew this into my barn, intend
ing to drop on the hills of corn as soon as they
were up l planted one acre on the first of
May, but after that the weather was so very
unfayorable that it was the end of May and
beginning of June before could get through
planting. Long before this the manure be-
gan to heat at such rate that had to un-
load it on the barn floor, aud on going into tho
barn few days after, the efiluvia was so pow
crful that was glad to escape. Having some
plaster on hand [ mixed it with the manure.
spreading the latter thinly over the floor, and
chcppng and bruising it very fine. Tt was
then thrown into heap and remained in that
condition till che corn was ready for it. There
was no further perceptible escape of ammonia.
With this top dressed all my corn, eleven
acres, and | had barrel left over for other
purposes. So we'll satisfied am with the re.
suit that for the future intend to prepare my
hen manure in the same way, and use it upon
the same crop mixed enough plaster with
it to make it dry aud inoffensve to handlc.--
can speak Of this from experience as drop.
ped it over four acres myself Now here is
manure equal in'value, l doubt to the aver.
age Of imported suano, which every farmer
can manufacture for himself, for every farmer
keeps fowls. But he must have.a suitable
house for them, and keep them from roosting
in other places about his premises, and even
in trees, wasting that valuable manure, which
is too frequently the case. So highly do
esteem this manure that make it my duty
every night to sec that all my fowls are in
their proper house
Gro. d. PRENTICE. -ELoouENT PAssAaE.
One Of the first things Geo. D. Prentice
ever wrote is this ininlitablo passage: "It
cannot be that earth is man,s only abiding
place. 1t cannot be that our life is bubble
cast up by the ocean of eternity, to float a mo. :
ment upon its waves and sink into nothing.
ness. Else, why is it the high and glorious
aspirations Which leap like angels from tho
temple of our hearts, -are forever wandering
unsatisfed? Why is it that the rainbow,and
cloud come over us with beauty that is not
of earth, and then pass off to leave us to muse
on their lovelincss? Why is it that the stars
which hold their festival around the midnight
throne, are set above the grasp of our limited
faculties, forever mocking us with their unap.
proachable glory? And, finally, why is it
that tic bright forms of human beauty, arc
presented to our view and taken from us, leas-
ing the thousand streams Of our affections.to to
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our
hearts We are born for higher destiny
than of earth. There is a realm where the,
stars will be spread out before us slike the
islands that slnmber in tho ocean, md who're,
the beautiful beings which pass before US Ike
shadows will stay foreverin our presence
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