Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-03-22
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RAISE SHEEP. EAT MUTTON.
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Good mutton well fatted and neatly butch
cred is the most wholesome, nutritious an,
cheapest of meats. It grows quick and cost.
little to produce it, compared with beef ant
pork. Every farmer should have few wool
ed Cosset sheep at -Cotswolds or Lei
cesters They are little trouble aud will keeI
fat on the orts of the cattle. They usually
bring twin lambs. which sell to the butcher.
for from So to $40 the Ist of July. Then
fleece averages from to II lbs. with from
l6to 25 pei. cent. shrink only. Their wool is
nor and rH be in the future, worth 30 pei
cent. more than Merino, which shrinks from
45 to 20 per. cent, according to the family
and treatment ofthe flock Long wool makes
strong, excellent and durable domestic stock
ing yarn, though it is mostly used 10 make the
brilliant, light and lustrous Orleans goods
for the apparel Of our pretty women. Two
such sheep yield as much profit as common
COW, and FIVE of them can be kept as cheap
as COW in milk Their lambs aud mutton
would keep farmer supplied with the best
of fresh meat of one kind, as often as Is nee
eSsary, the year round, and would make an
agreeable episode to the eternal round Of salt
Junk aud pork, and be far more healthy than
either. Those who eat principally salted
meats show it in their complexion, their skin
being less fair and smooth. Pork at best
eaten constantly, produces irritation and
eruphons ofthe skin. Since the discovery in
this country, ofthe trachna disease, an ex-
animation Of great number OF slaughtered
hogs in the West by committee of scientific
gentlemen, reported that they found about
one hog in forty more or less diseased. We
have now a plenty Of sheep in the country,
over 80, 100000 head, (more than ever before
according to the population Then let all
manufacturers, mechanics, and all men who
areinterested to have good meat and the board
OF operatives cheap and wholesome, see to il
that mutton raising and wool-growiug are
properly encouraged as a matter of health
and economy. Meat is great item in the
expense of board Of operatives, &c II we
grow our own wool, we shall always have
nation plenty and cheap. This win affect
hAdecAiaiAJ NuC PAACS VI ubuct ththlf anu iAG
whole people, including the manufacturers,
would gain probably as much by cheaper
meats as they would lose by aprotectiye du-
ty on wool for encouraged, both wool and
mutton would be plenty and cheap.
Mutton is better. cheaper and safer to eat
than pork, for Miss Ida Jordan, of Maine
township, Marion county, Iowa. has just died
of trichiniosis, having eaten diseased pork
last spring. She never entirely recovered
from the first attack, which was very pecu
liar set of abnormal manifestations, and has,
at this length of time from the eating of the
trichinous meat, suecumbed to the presence
Of the parasite in her system.
This subject is worthy of much reflection
by all who would not destroy the present pros
perity Of our national flock by ineonsiderate
and improvident legislation. A prosperous
sheep husbandry is a matter of the very first
Importance to every civilized community, and
most especially to the United States, where
the climate and its changes, for health and
comfort, require SO much wooden clothing the
year round. II. c. N.