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Excerpt from Origin and Growth of Sheep Husbandry in the United States: With Some Remarks on Angora Fleece What reasons can be assigned for progress so slow? M any, perhaps, but one will suffice: the preponderance of cotton and the absorbing in terest in its culture. With an agricultural system so limited it is not strange that sheep husbandry has assumed so little importance. Unde1 the circumstances, w ith the prevalent aversion to diversity ot rural pro duction, progress has been considerable, demonstrating the dominating force of0 great natural resources in rural industries. The peculiar advan tages of Texas long since attracted the attention of the world, and wool growing has divided with beef production the labors and profits of its 1ural economy. The other fifteen States give this industry much less prominence, but together they support nearly twice as many sheep as Texas. The numbers in these States, as reported in the census of 1850. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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