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in 1867, £10,596 more than that of the previous year. It is estimated that 
sheep husbandry yields 20 per cent. profit; aud the number of sheep has 
steadily increased for the last teu years. 
Large quantities of butter and cheese are made from the milk of sheep and 
goats, and sent to Constantinople; sheep and lambs are also sent to Constanti- 
neple for consumption. There is an active demand for the skins of lambs aud 
goats, which are salted and packed for the French and English markets. The 
average cost of a flock of 1,800 ewes, 150 rams and 50 goats, is about $2 per 
head ; the cost of keeping, &c., about 70 cents per head ; and the total value of 
produce, exclusive of skins, $2,500, or $1 25 per head. 
The two prominent breeds which are considered by the natives as distinctly 
local, are the Kavirjik, which bear some affinity to the grade Merinos, and the 
Karabash, which are black faced, and not unlike the sheep of Macedonia and 
Thessaly. The wool of the former is most esteemed, being long, soft, and 
elastic, and twisted in ringlets, which gives the name to the breed. 
AMERICAN DAIRYMEN IN SWITZERLAND. 
American enterprise appears to be looking to other continents for new spheres 
of activity. A company of Americans has located a milk-condensing establish- 
ment at Charn, by the lake of Zug, in Switzerland, intended to contribute to 
English cousumption particularly. George H. Page, of Dixon, Illinois, is 
superintendent of the “Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.” Milk from 
the Alpine region is celebrated for its richness and flavor. About 400 gallons 
daily is received from the peasants of the neighborhood, and manufactured so 
earefully that a specimen kept twelve months, as reported by Baron Liebig, 
has been churned into excellent butter. 
