Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Farm, Garden and Household.
What sheep arc Needed. >

your columns as to what breed of sheer
is most profitable. All breeds are, i
well kept, profitable, more or less, fol
oil classes Of wool are in more or les.
demand. But the following, from the
New York Economist, goes to showthat
just now, it will pay our farmers tt
take good care Of their long-woolec
sheep:
It is true that it takes time to raise
lambs and increase focks of sheep. Al
yet there has not been much increase il
the production of the staple in oul
Northern or Western States; but what
is lacking in quantity is to some extent
made up in quality, for our markets
now present lines Of fancy woods from
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, which
are equal to any wool grown the world
over. The superfine fancy clips from
West Virginia are particularly choice,
and will bear close comparison with the
finest Australian and Silesian. The
woods will command fancy prices at any
time, no matter how stringent money
may be, for they are always wanted fol
opera fannels, fne-faced doeskins o,
ladies' worsted dress goods or braids,
and yet we fear enough of these grades
will never be grown in the States to sup.
ply the constantly increasing wants OF
our manufacturers. The demand for
combing woods continues very active
in fact, it is urgent, until now, prices
have rapidly risen, especially for Cana
dian. From a private letter written by
awell-known firm in Hamilton, recently,
We are enabled to make the following
extract:
"Cembing wool cannot be got in any
quantities at present. The country has
been secured all around for manufac-
turers in your State, and as high as 44c,
gold, has been paid, and the prospect
is, it will go somewhat higher. We
estimate the clip at 1,500, 600 pounds. 4"
This sounds like high talk but wait;
before the ink is yet dry on the paper
wewrite upon, we have advices still more
astonishing-with sales Acc. gold for
Canadian combing, and the best article
is now held at half dollar gold. This
would carry the price beyond so cents
currency; and yet it is not fortnight
since Mr.. Walworth asserted he would
not pay over 60 cents for the staple
landed in the States. Such are the
enormous demands for worsted wools
the world over, that everywhere in
Europe and America, they are bringing
prices out of proportion to fine clothing
grades.
The Economist goes on to advise the
importation Of Canada sheep to cross
with Saxony @, in order to supply the
pressing demands for combing woods.
But if our breeders of long wools would
save all their eve lambs, letting none
60 to the butcher, these breeders would
put the country into fair way Of sup
plying the demand at as quick, and far
better rate, than by following the advice
of the Economist.-Cor. National Live
Stock Journal.
Late Decisions by Grangers.
Members not clear on the books
should not be given the annual word.
A Past Master has the same rights as
any other member, and no more.
Oranges cannot constitutionally re-
fund or remit any part of the initiation
fee.
A subordinate grange cannot change
the bylaw requiring money to accom-
pany the petition.
A grange cannot take note for fees
or vote back any fees after they have
once been paid in.
Standing committees on applications
are illegal; all committees on applica-
tions must be special.
Rituals are not to be distributed
among the different members Of the
grange, but to be kept by one officer.
A grange cannot change its place OF
meeting into the jurisdiction of another
grange without obtaining the consent
of the grange in whose jurisdiction
they propose to hold their meetings.
Indiana.
When persons from one jurisdiction
are taken into another grange without
consent, the grange whose territory was
encroached on may claim the fees, but
the other grange may retain the mem
Der.
Cribbing In Horses.
Cribbing is vice, although it is con.
sidered by some as an unsoundness, or,
more correctly, symptom of unsound.
ness, in the digestive organs. It is
learned from other horses, by example,
or it is acquired spontaneously by
young horses kept idly in the stable,
and on the watch for something to do
in the way of mischief, if nothing else
turns up. It is also caused by an I'm.
natural hankering after something be.
tween the teeth, which may be the re.
suit Of indigestion, or of irritation in
the jaws or mouth, arising from teeth.
ing. When once leaned it is seldom
forgotten. The best remedy is to keep
the horse in loose box in which there
is nothing on which he can lay hold
with his teeth, and to keep him at work
steadily. When in harness let him
wear wire muzzle. If he is young
the horse may be broken of the vice,
but not if he is old. It has recently
been decided in an English court that
cribbing is such an imperfection as to
vitiate the sale of horse as much as
an unsoundness would if not declared
at the time of sale.
Preserving Shingles.
When shingles are soaked in crude
petroleum, which is the black unrefned
oil as it comes from the wells, they very
much resemble pitch pine, the oil pene.
trating to the heart of the wood and
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