782 DR. CHASE 8 RECIPES. 



What is the cost of raisiag to that age? First year to milk, grain and hay, $13; 

 one summer's pasture, $4; six months' feeding hay or grain, $16; makings 

 total cost of $32 This is a very low estimate ; everything is down to the lowest 

 notch. Now you see that it has cost $32 to raise this calf. Subtract his keep- 

 ing from what he sold for, and you have the profit of $8. This is counting 

 for your trouble, allowing the manure to balance that. Now for the sheep. It 

 will cost to keep and raise 8 lambs until they are 1 year old, for pasture, hay and 

 gruin $12; fori year more for hay and grain, $20; making their total cost from 

 birth to 2 years old, $32. Now, for the 8 head of sheep, weighing 125 lbs. per 

 head, making 1,000 lbs. at 4 cents per lb., is $40. Two clips of wool, 16 

 fleeces, weighing 5 lbs. per fleece, makes 80 lbs. of wool; at 32 cents per lb., 

 $25.60. Now take the $40 that the sheep sold for, and you have $65.60 as 

 total receipts. Subtract cost from this and you have $33.60 profit on 8 sheep 

 against $8 profit on 1 steer, both weighing the same at same age, and both cost- 

 ing the same for keep, leaving a balance of $25.60 in favor of sheep, showing 

 clearly that it is better to keep sheep than cattle, especially where we have small 

 farms. I think that this estimate is correct, taking prices in this neighborhood 

 as a basis. 



Remarks. — This shows very clearly, for all ordinary cases, that there is 

 more real profit in she^p than cattle; still every farmer must consider his situa- 

 tion as to the adaptation of his farm to one or the other, and perhaps keep l)oth, 

 if his farm is large and adapted to either; otherwise he must keep the kind of 

 stock best adapted to the circumstances around him; but it is always an advan- 

 tage to be well posted in everything in which he may engage. But I do think 

 that every farmer should keep a few sheep, under all circumstances. 



Sheep, a Few Short Rules for the Care of.— The American Emi 

 grant Company's circular says: 1. Keep sheep dry underfoot, with litter. This 

 is even more important than roofing them. But never let them stand, or lie, in 

 the mud or snow. 



II. Drop or take out the lowest bars as the sheep enter or leave a yard, 

 thus saving broken limbs. 



III. Begin graining with the greatest care, and use the smallest quantity 

 at first. 



IV. If a ewe loses her lamb, milk her daily for a few days, and mix a 

 little alum with her salt. 



V. Give the lambs a little mill feed in time of weaning. 

 VI. Never frighten the sheep if it is possible to avoid it. 

 VII. Sow rye, for weak ones in cold weather, if you can. 

 V III. Separate all weak, or thin, or sick, from those strong, in the fall, and 

 give them especial care. 



IX. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wound with some- 

 thing healing. If a limb is broken, bind it with splinters tightly, loosening as 

 the limb swells. 



X. Keep a number of good bells on the sheep. 



XI. If one is lame, examine the foot, clean out between the hoofs, pare 

 the hoof if unsound, and apply tobacco with blue vitriol boiled in water. 



