Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-04-21
THE GREAT INTERNA TIONAL
EHHIBITTON OF SHEEP AND
WOOL.

/ EIHI BIIION Of SHEEP AND
WOOL.
The following correspondence anC
Act OF Congress on the subject of the
international Exhibition of Sheep
W DOL, and Wool Products, to be held al
Philadelphia, September 1880, are pub
lished for the information Of Sheep
Breeders and Wool Manufacturers IN
this and foreign countries
OFFICE OF PENNSYLVANIA STATE !
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
HARRISBURG, Feb, II, 1880. J
.M. Commissioner:
In behalf of the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural Society, we have the hon,
or to inform you of the intention Of the
Society, to hold an International Elk.
hibtion of Ship and Wool in the Main
Centennial Building, Eairmount Park
Philadelphia, in September next
For more than two years the Socic.
ty, through Committee appointed fol
the purpose, has been in correspond.
ence on the subject, with prominent
Sheep Breeders and Woolgrowers
throughout the country. The opinion
expressed by them is earnestly in ia.
vor of an international Exhibition
We therefore respectfully and cor
daily ask your approval OF the enter
prise, and your influence and co-opera-
tion in advancing it.
We can not doubt that you fully
recognize tho value of q branch OF az.
riculture, which furnishes the most
nutritious of meats for home consump-
tion and for expectation, and which
also constitutes the basis Of manu-.
featuring industry Of the highest i'm
portance and that you moreover re.
gard it as a branch which appeals
strongly and deservedIy to the foster
! ing care Of Government.
The returns from your Department
show, in States North and South, de-
prived of their fertility by slovenly
and wasteful cultivation, that Sheep
Husbandry, so well adapted to supply
the lost fertility, is scarcely, if at ALL
on the increase
That sheep are bred for mutton oil
for wool only, when both, of fine and
desirable quality, may be advanta
geously produced by means Of one and
the same animal
That the benefit resulting from the
Infusion Of pure blood into our native
hocks, needs to be more widely known
and the practice more generally fol
lowed;
That our country is capable Of grow.
ing every grade of combing and fnC
wool, and that the $4,000, 900 pounds
annually imported by our manuiac
tuiers, can be produced here;
That immense tracts Of waste land
in the Atlantic and the Western States
may be most profitably utilized by the
raising of sheep upon them.
The value OF the careful and pro-
tracted Investigations, carried on in
this and foreign countries, in order tC
determine theconditions most favorable
to fecundity, early maturity, palatahlC
favor of flesh, and fneness, soundness
weight, strength, elasticity, length
and lustre of the wool, can be mad,
manifest by bringing together the best
animals and neeces in an international
competitive exhibition
The year of the census is an eligible
one for showing how we compare with
other nations in this department of in
dustry. Pennsylvania is centrally and
conveniently situated for such an ex,
hibition. Her farmers are awaken
ing to the Importance Of sheep hus,
bandry. Ono OF her counties, Wash
ington, has, as you have recently pub
lished, "over four hundred thousanC
sheep, producing as good merino WOO
AZ there is in the world" You alsC
publish the statement that the great
est Of American inventions and pro
gress in the manufacture Of wool is IL
the production of carpets" We need
not remind you that Philadelphia il
the centre OF this branch OF manuiac
lures, and that one of her carpet mills
employs three thousand hands.
The Main Centennial Building, the
grandest and most appropriate struc
ture for tho holding OF the proposed
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