Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-11-03

We find an excellent practical es-
say on Wool Growing in Iowa, in
the report of the State Agricultural
Society for 1869, by Thomas
McGifiin, Esq, OF Fairfield, Iowa, an
experienced wool grower, both in the
State AM Pennsy wanna. As every
department OF wool growing is in
cludcd in this essay We shall extract
from it as required those parts only
which are applicable to the season
when they may be published. For
the present We only publish the fol-
lowing:
In every pursuit Of life, we should
take into consideration the items and
points that make up the beginnings;
should look well to location, selec
ton Of stock, and, in short, all the
inducements, advantages, and pleas
ures, also, that are the body aud soul
OF the venture.
These make the "stock in trade"
and, made corclully, will, If pressed on
to success, make the man and money.
No man can have success anywhere,
without pressing on in spite of mis-
takes and losses, so intimately wound
up together in all occupations. These
are the general principles governing
all nature and all art, aud that person
who neglects his reckoning on land,
is no wiser than the sailor who neg
lects his On the wide sea; shipwrcck
and ruin are for the first as well as
the last. None should grumble or
find fault; because all this is the wise
ordering Of The gre Creator, who
gives us our "daily food" upon con-
dition that the "sweat of the brow
only shall bring forth fruits of the
earth"
"A d in no calling can these things
be seen and felt more wildly aud
surely than in the sheep fold or sheep
walk. Any error IN location Of e.
ther will as surely be followed by loss
as that there is error. An error in
selecting the kind of sheep bears its
fruits in the lambs and wool, through
many generations-the lambs insult
ed to the wants of purchasers Of
sheep and the wool unsatisfactory
also TO the manufacturer, because
unsnited to the wants OF his estab-
lishment and trade. And right here,
at the very threshold, is one matter
that wool growers aud factorymen
should know, and knowing should
improve, q mutual good will toward
each other is absolutely needed aud
must be given to have all the par.
ties feel safe and agreeable in COM
partnership and in business. In deal.
ing with this important subject, let
US begin At the
LOCALITY OF THE FARM. It is
very desirable that this should be on
naturally dry laud;or,if on fiat land, it
must b. thoroughly drained, with
little delay as possible, after Tor rath-
or before) tho stock is obtained; tor
if delayed untilthe wet seasons come,
as come they will, diseases OF the
feet, skin anu body will be produced.
These, it called durable ut the start,
soon become incurable, and are at
tended often by more damage to
flock and owners health, aud in
work, trouble, and expense OF cure
than would have been the cost oil
complete drainage. And besides
these calamities to tie immediate
owner, by contact they may infect
whole neighborhoods with contagi.
GUS diseases, thus producing untold
losses, upon innocent parties, other.
wise we'll located. Right thinking
men should consider wellthe interests
and danger OF their neighbors' hocks'
On every sheep farm, there sould be
some tame meadow and also tame
grass TO supply TODD when the wild
A. deficient or frosted, and It at all
possibly, be there before the land il
fully stocked. Sheep love the run.
ming brook. In . great number OF the
counties Of this State, they gladden.
the eye. lfnot obtainable, proved
wells or cisterns full, for all demand,
and then know it is given them to