Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18


very large scale. Abundant evidence is at
hand showing that fine wool is now being
grown on the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains that can be sold at n fair profit
for twelve cents n pound. Can Vermont
hope to compete with price like that, or
can she hope to stand up against such n " fire
in the rear?"
In view of this unmistakable state of the
case it would seem the height of folly for any
state east of the Mississippi to expect to reap
any profit from wool growing rs II business.
To show that we have not overstated the
facts in the case, we quote from the recently
issued report of the Commissioner of Agri-
culture for 1870. In an essay upon The
Pastoral Lands of America after showing
that we have in the interior of our continent
IN area of pastoral land exceeding that of all
the states east of the Mississippi, equal, if
not superior to any to be found elsewhere
upon the globe, the writer says:
"In this region wool can be grown ms cheap
ly as it can be produced in Australia and
South America. The climate is dry, with
an entire absence of long, cold, rain storms,
from which sheep suffer So much. The at
mosphere is cool and bracing, and the soil is
dry, gravelly and porous with an abundance
of short, sweet grasses and tender heritage
throughout the veal ....... There seems to
be no reasons why not only the common
clothing woods, but also the long Merino
contingencies of Australia and the delaine
woods of New Zealand should not be grown
here"
Hon. j. b. Chafiee, of Colorado, writes:
Tba of
creasng rapidly that the fact Of its being very
In county Coneos 900 sheep grazing
time last summer and do think 500 900 would he
overesmate for the whole Territory. 1t is undoubtedly
one u the most natural and best adapted sheepgrowng
tries In the world In the southern portion Of Co RADIO the
only expense herdng the sheep subssng upon the
raj Of the country in the winter well In the
preparation Of hay food being necessary The
profit reckoned after deductng every expense less
than 49, and by rs per per upon the m
vestment taking the price Of wool at about II per
pound The slope the Rocky Mountains including
Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico doubtless the best
sheepgrowng country this continent and probably in the
whole world"
Hon. John NJ. Thayer, of Nebraska, writes
al am that wool can be grown the Rocky Mount
aims slopes equal in fibre to the best woods of Australia saxo
ny, Moravia and low any wool can grown
in the cheapest pastures Of the world and still wider
margin for profit. We ought wool there only
our own use, hut for the Of the world
Hon. w. ii. Hooper writes of wool grow
ing in Utah:
The climate, grasses, and topography Of Utah render it
Of the best sheepproducng localities in the whole range
Of the states and territories and in this respect what
for Utah will almost equally apply to the entire Rocky
Mountains country Sheep, when well wntered and
for prove to be healthy and prolific aordng the finest
have eaten and their eeces superior quan
ty and quality The people Of Territory have from
sity to the subject Of sheephusbandry full and careful
test very advantageous feature Of the Rocky Mount
ain range in sheepgrowng is the adapabity of many
valleys To the raising Of roots which afford good food
able sheep in the higher and northern portions
to feed WE'LL and thus render certain large number
lambs and also large ieeces"
Hon. Roscoe Conkling of New York writes ::
son all occasions Of raversng the plains-and | have
crossed them several tmesmy attention has been
to the adaptation of the country ocks Indeed the
broken abrupt, and places seemed available
safeguarding"
Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio says:
81 have been and yet somewhat interested in raising
sheep and producing wool in Ohio and have gwen
tenton to the subject On the eighth Of April express
Cd my opinion Of the future Of sheep husbandry this
try, in speech made in Congress- and which opinion yet
believe to he correct then predicted that the interior of