Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-05

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per sheep year to my fiocks. You see
have about million sheep, and an In
crease of this kind is worth great deal.
have some sheep which will average -
pounds to the fleece, and ] think by
breeding that can Increase this to 10
pounds per fleece. | have had sheep
which produced as much as 40 pounds OF
wool at one shearing, at one time we cut
80 pounds of wool from one Of our Yer
mont rams and 80 pounds from eve.
have distributed the Vermont sheep
through my flocks, both In New South
Wales and in Queensland, and the result
is considerable increase in the clip. We
find that the sheep which come from
cross of the Vermont and the Australian
sheep retain their wool much longer than
the Australian sheep.
81 wish | could show you some of the
sheep exhibited at the Sydney sheep
show. There were in all 100 represent
ing every part of Australia. -Four humid
red of these were merinos, being in the
fine wool class, 300 were fat sheep, en-
tered in the competition in the class with
frozen mutton. Every sheep at the show
was worth several hundred dollars, and
some several thousand dollars"
Among the latter was Mr.. McCaugh-
eve $4,000 ram, which took first prize.
1t was a great oblong bundle of wool
with pair of big horns at one end of 1t.
In some of the stalls saw ewes which
had 80 pounds of wool on them, and
everywhere | heard the praises of our
Vermont sheep. ! asked one man
whether the sheep did not lose their wool
from generation to generation in so warm
country as New South Wales. He re-
piled that they did, and that the bringing
in of cold-climate sheep, such as 1.-THE
Vermont,," prevented s.-Woodstock
Standard.
THEY WILL TAKE RISKS.
In how ptiful a plight are the three
thousand or more bleating lambs who
were Shorn by the shearers of the motor
ous Miller syndicate. which promised
profits of no less than $40 per cent every
year. Their claims, as shown by court
figures. amount to nearly 100000, and,
as already said, there are at least three
thousand of them. They will get only
per cent of the sums which they put in.
The swindling operations of Ferdinand
Ward. one of the so-caled "Napoleons of
Finance" were thoroughly exposed at
great length by newspapers in every part
of North America. Ward spent years in
prison because of his South Sea bubble.
The operations of reputed "syndicates"
a in
discreet, and the schemes of individual
Cagliostros, who promise TO I'LL the
pockets of their dupes with fabulous
gains, have been laid bare in the daily
journals on many occasions, with liberal
array of facts and figures. Nevertheless,
the plausible deceiver who cries out in
the market place that he can make men
rich with Aladdnlike speed, and can pay
large diyidens out of mythical specula-
tions, still finds plenty of listeners. The
shell game, the ''greengoods" steal. the
gold brick fraud, the bogus lottery draw
ing, the counterfeit policy deal. the
'brace game" at cards, the roulette
wheel with a loose cOg-such tricks and
devices of the cozener and the trickster
do not fail of dupes wherever the forces
of law and order are perverted by bribes
or merely lax and inefficient.
Fraudulent synoicates which lure sim
pletons to their traps by assurances of
800 per cent dividends in every twelve
month are sure to prosper, unless public
prosecutors and the guardians of public
morals are on the alert and take prompt
action. To call the roll of men and
women who are eager TO risk their saw
ngs in Ward Miller schemes would take
long time. Common sense and the die
tates of ordinary prudence might be sup
posed to restrain even the average spec
ulator from throwing away money in
such snares. But words of warning and
the strongest proofs of fraud in such
schemes are often unavaillng. There is
never any lack of people who are hot TO
take chances, even if they are sure to be
plundered in the long run.-New York
Tribune.
PRETORIA is SAFE"
The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Times has Just made a startling
revelation of the state of the war in
South Africa. lie describes the de.