This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... in the Southern States, there are four hundred thousand families, and each family should have six sheep, there would be 2,400,000 animals producing wool and mutton, --more than at present in all New England. This great accession to the wealth of the country would be nothing compared with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... in the Southern States, there are four hundred thousand families, and each family should have six sheep, there would be 2,400,000 animals producing wool and mutton, --more than at present in all New England. This great accession to the wealth of the country would be nothing compared with the civilizing and humanizing influence of the pastoral occupation upon the population, and the habits of thrift which it would engender. How many thousand country boys at the North have got their first notions of economy and accumulation from having, for their own, the products and increase of a single sheep! The colored race, from their natural gentleness, take most kindly to the care of animals. Negroes, it is well known, make excellent shepherds, as they make capital hostlers. There are but few colored families which could not afford to purchase two or three ewes. The profits in that favored country, though small at first, would be sure. The increase would be limited only by the perseverance of the shepherd, and his command of land for pasturage, --probably the chief obstacle. Let sheep culture, upon ever so modest a scale, generally prevail among the colored people of the South, and dogs and thieves, white or black, would quickly disappear under the vigilance of a self-constituted police, more effective than any the law could provide; though laws would follow, and would be enforced. Question of Over-production of Wool.--The question will naturally arise: If the South grows wool according to her capacity, will she have a market for her production? To the question proposed in this form, no other than a negative answer could be given. But the practical inquiry is this: Is there any reason in a probable glut of the market from an enlargement of the area.
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