The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-07-01
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
AGRICULTURAL.

Wool GRowINGs-WOol growing is one
of the great elements OF our national pros
perity. II takes rank with cotton raising,
but It's value to the nation is not yet one
tenth what II Will be; and from present ap-
pearances, Northern wool will become
more important item of wealth than South
ern cotton The day of cotton growing Is
over. Cotton Is a dethroned king. and will
never again in the history of American
products figure up its 5,000.0OO bales yearly.
Wool growing Is destined to increase, and
no limits can be set to the production of II.
Sheep improve land aside from their value
as wool producers, they enrich and beautify
tile surface of hills and valleys clearing
them of all Objectionable bushes and plants
and producing splendid carpet like lawn,
bright, green and lovely for the eve to
look upon; In fact sheep-raisng s absO-
lutely necessary, and is indispensable to
successful farming; for while their ma
nure Increases the fertility ofthe SOIL their
peculiar style and habits of browsing de-
stroy all obnoxious vines. climbing plants
and small bushes which often disfgure the
pastures; this constant cropping keeps the
green sward looking like velvet, and each
succeeding year that the sheep roam over
the farm. finds It richer In food, and capa-
BILE of furnishing greater number ofthese
animals with nutrition.
FLESH IN GRAss.-Animals can do moth
ing (says writer in All Ihe Year Round),
with Inorganic materials unless these have
been previously prepared by the vegetable.
The vegetable Kingdom. therefore. as Jean
Mace says. Is the vast kitchen in which are
cooked the dinners OF the animal kingdom.
When we eat the OK, it Is the grass which
he has eaten that actually nOurishes us.
For us, Ire is mere Intermediary, who
transfers to us inact the albunrn extracted
by his stomach from the juices supplied to
him by his pasture grounds. lie is only a
walter in the grand eating house of nature.
The dishes he brings us have been put into
his hands ready prepared Only to appre-
ciate his services properly, we must re-
member that the nutritious portions fur
nished by grass are very small indeed I'm
their weight and dimensions, and that it
would be weary task for our digestion to
have to elaborate them one by one. We
might be starved to death with our stom-
achs full, as happened to some unfortunate
Australian explorers, who found plenty of
nardo to eat, but nothing else. The OK pre-
sents us with those little portions concen-
trated in a little heaped-up plateful; and
our stomachs are the gamers by his COM
plaisance.
Texas CATTLE INoCULATING NORTHERN
HERDS Stately the herds of Missouri and
some of the other western States have de-
veloped Il fatal disease contracted from
Texas cattle, and serious losses have en-
sned therefrom. On this subject writer in
the Southern CHltiUdtOr offers the follow
ing observations notice that cattle
scarcely ever take the fever, II let remain
where they were raised, aud i am fully
convinced that it is generally brought on
by a change of climate. For instance you
take the cattle from the mountain country
to the low country, and they will take the
fever in short time and die, but the dis
ease will NOE affect the cattle raised there
but, on the other hand, take cattle raised in
what we call u distempered part of the
country--that Is, the low country, from
warm latitudes-up to colder one, they
will themselves improve all the time, but
without being sick themselves, they will
spread fever and kill the cattle in the sec
ton ofcountry into which they are taken,
till they travel on, stay, or have staid, long
enough for the fever to leave the system
have been in the habit of driving cattle
from Florida to Virginia, and found my
cattle to improve and do well but after
passed the line of thirty-four degrees, they
began to spread the fever all along the line
OF travel, among the stock raised in that
section of the country, until l struck the
line of Virginia, which is distance OF
about two hundred and fifty miles, then II
ceased, and all went on well. suppose the
reason for its stopping was, that my cattle
had been out of the low country long
enough to become acclimated. Hence,
think the disease originated from a change
of climate. taking them from Il cooler to d
warmer climate, or taking them from a
warm climate to a more cool and healthy
one.