78 THE SHEPHEKD'S MANUAL. 



DR. 



Cost of 55 sheep $165.00 



Value of hay, turnips, bran, meal, and oil-cake, fed. 305.84 



Freight and charges on 24 lambs 7.92 



Balance of profit and loss 145.64 



$524.40 

 CB. 



24 early lambs sold at from $7 @ $10 each $192 00 



8 lambs, @ $4.50 3600 



12 lambs, @ $3.50 42.00 



8 lambs kept, @ $4.00 32.00 



9 Ibs. pulled wool, @ 30c 2.70 



182 Ibs. of wool, @35c 63.70 



52 sheep on hand ( 3 killed by dogs) 156.00 



$524.40 



This leaves a profit of nearly 100 per cent, on the original cost 

 of the sheep, and in addition a large pile of valuable manure, of 

 which no account was kept." 



FATTENING SHEEP FOR MARKET. 



Where the distance from market prevents profitable shipments, 

 and the home market furnishes insufficient encouragement to 

 breed early lambs, the purchase of sheep for fattening may be 

 made a special business with great advantage. In this business 

 the proper choice of sheep and shrewdness in purchasing are as 

 necessary to success as are skill in feeding and choice of proper 

 food. Where grades of Leicester or Cotswold sheep, such as are 

 known in the American markets as Canada sheep, can be secured, 

 those are the most profitable to purchase. The next best sheep are 

 grade Southdowns ; but little profit is to be made out of our native 

 sheep in feeding them for mutton. They are poor feeders, and 

 difficult to clothe with flesh or fat, and the farmer who would pur- 

 chase sheep to feed for profit, should avoid them. He had better 

 keep such sheep for breeding, crossing them with a thoroughbred 

 Cotswold ram and feeding the produce. 



A statement given by Mr. Jurian Winne, of Albany Co., N, Y., 

 in the Annual Eegister of Rural Affairs for 1867-8-9, will be found 

 of interest. In this case two lots of sheep from a large flock were 

 set apart for feeding ; they consisted of 60 grade Leicesters from 

 Canada, and 61 Merinos; they were weighed Feb. 10th, and a 

 careful account was kept of the food consumed during 46 days, up 

 to March 28th, when they were weighed and sent to market. 

 The selection was simply made as a test, and to avoid the trouble 



