Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time- being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the (14572578150)

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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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he flocks. In 1654the Assembly of Massachusetts prohibited the exportation of sheep, and in1675 of wool. Virginia enacted similar laws. OF THE UNITED STATES. Gradually, but slowly, sheep multiplied in numbers. A report on Americanindustries, made to the British House of Commons in 1731-32 by the Board ofTrade, shows, that, at that time, nearly all American farmers had , , J Jealousy of a few sheep, whose wool was spun at home for domestic use. British farm-There was no export, however. Great jealousy was felt by the erstoward -T.--1T iti -ii • 1 i - Americans. British, lest we should compete with them in wool-production;and obstacles were put in the way of our obtaining sheep. Jared Eliot, writ-ing in 1747, says, A better breed of sheep is what we want. The Englishbreed of Cotswold sheep cannot be obtained, or at least with great difficulty \for wool and live animals are contraband goods, which all strangers are pro-hibited from carrying out on pain of having the right hand cut off.
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On the breaking-out of the Revolution, the colonists immediately recog-nized the importance of preserving their sheep for propagation. The Colo-nial Congress of 1775 voted to discourage killing, and encourage Measures tothe breeding, of sheep. The Pennsylvania Assembly did likewise. f°ster sneep-The Association of Butchers voted not to kill sheep, and in 1776 (ngAmeri-it is said twenty thousand less sheep were slaughtered than in can Revoiu-1774. During the siege of Boston, however, in 1775-76, large tlonsupplies of live-stock, including sheep, were sent from all parts of the colonies INDUSTRIAL HISTORY for the soldiers food. There must have been more than a million of theseanimals in the country at that time. Little was done in the way of importing choice breeds of sheep into thiscountry until the close of the last century and the early part of this. Men-tion is made by Custis of two Leicester ewes on the estate of Washington,First impor- from which, by a Persian ram, were derived t