Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-31
THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.

industry of the United States is going
| to the dogs-but the dogs are not re-
| sponsible. Rather it is the new tariff
act, with it's provisions for free wool
1t appears that last year there were
| exported from Boston to Europe about
1000 head of sheep. This year up to
| December 1 here had been sent to
Europe via Boston no less than 65,
900 head of sheep. 1t is estimated
that the exports since Dec, 1 would
bring the figures up to $4,000. 1t is
remarked that if to these figures there
be added the exports from Montreal
which have come from the United
States, as we'll as the exports from
New York, the result would be most
startling. At the Office of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, in Boston, this
great increase in the export of sheep
is explained by the statement that
they are cheaper here than they are
in England. The officials say the
sheep that are being exported are al
most wholly from the West, and ex
plain the great exodus by declaring
that they are very cheap over here,
and for that reason are being heavily
bought across the water The Mon
treal shipments have been about the
same as from Boston.
One does not have to look far for
good reason for this unwonted cheap
ic, lu -
the free wool tariff has caused it, and
that one result of its passage will be
the wiping out of sheep raising for
wool purposes and in the near future
the placing of sheep breeding on
mutton producing basis. This is the
opinion Of the best authorities on
sheep raising. 1t is predicted that
sheep in this country will be raised
primarily for mutton, and that a
coarser grade of wool will consequent
ly be produced. It must be some con-
ISOLATION to the sheep raisers that the
Democrats cannot kill the mutton in
dusry.
tt estimated that the whole num-
Der of sheep owned in the United
States is about Al ,00O,0 600. In 1893 the
tota exports for the whole country
were $37 ,26O, while for October of the
present year, very soon after the pas
sage of the new tariff bill, they were
from Boston alone 26, 10. Thus it will
be seen that our sheep, like our gold,
are going abroad, and that we are not
getting very good price for them
either. We suppose their feeces will
come back to us in the shape of man
ufactured goods. Great is the Dem
ocratic party.-The Telegraph.
Cd Szn----
The tramp question is just now at
tracing much attention in the
newspapers as we'll as in the Grim
inal courts. The alarming increase
of crime, most of which can be traced
to these vagrants, ought to serve as
warning to our authorities to bestir
themselves and abate the nuisance.
In our last weeks correspondence
was an item relating to the outrage
Gus conduct of two tramps, and their
release with no punish
ment by the authorities. We have no
knowledge of this case beyond the
item furnished by our esteemed cor
respondent, but if the facts are as
stated by him, we incline to the view
that the Justice erred sadly in dis
charging those criminals without Sc
we're punishment. Canada, we are in
formed, has no tramps, and the rea-
son for this salutary condition is that |
there they have authorities who do
not scruple to enforce the law against |
all offenders Of this class.-POultney |
Journal.
tits seldom that newspaper con-
tinues fifty years under the same man
agement. Newspapers reach even
the century mark, but during that
time the management changes fire.
quently. The Stunstedd Journal is fif-
ty years old, and during all these
years has been published by the pres
ent proprietor, L. r. Robinson.
That he may live to run his staunch |
and reliable paper many years longer
is the wish Of his friends and contem-
poraries. n