No. 4.] SHEEP BREEDING. 125 



Land, New Hampshire, Shropshire; value per head, $28; annual income 



per head, $4. 

 C. T. Brettell, Vermont, horned Dorsets; value per head, $35; annual 



income per ewe, $39. 

 A. Atherton, New Hampshire, Dorsets; reports that out of a carload 



every sheep died within a year from the time of purchase. 

 L. Jordan, New Hampshire, merino crossbreds or scrubs; number of 



ewes, 20; value per head, $6; annual income per head, $8. 

 F. C. Daniels, New Hampshire, merino crossbreds or scrubs; number 



of ewes, 220; value per head, $4; annual income per head, $7.75. 

 H. Nims, New Hampshire, South Downs; number of ewes, 40; value 



per head, $5; income per head, $6.20. 



In order to compare the profits in the different breeds of 

 sheep now kept in New England, it not only would be neces- 

 sary to take into consideration the cost of food consumed by 

 the different breeds, but the amount of time taken in caring 

 for them. 



The hardy breeds of sheep will thrive on scant herbage dur- 

 ing the summer season and can be wintered on hay, straw and 

 corn fodder, and with a small amount of grain just before lamb- 

 ing time will raise a large per cent of lambs. One man can 

 take care of 500 or 600 during the winter and during the sum- 

 mer season (with good fences). An hour or two a week spent 

 in salting them is all the time that is necessary to spend on 

 them. 



Now three-fourths of all the sheep in the world are merinoes 

 and merino crossbred sheep, for the reason that they are hardy 

 and will thrive where the mutton breeds w-ill not. 



There may be a few favored localities in New England where 

 the mutton breeds will thrive, but New England as a whole I 

 don't consider favorable for the English breeds of sheep; but 

 on account of cheap lands I believe that the hardy breeds of 

 sheep can be kept at a greater profit here in New England 

 than any other kind of live stock. Now for New England I 

 would recommend first the Delaine merino; second, the Yer- 

 mont merino, a type without w^rinkles; and third, the Cheviot, 

 a mutton breed of sheep which originated in northern Scotland 

 where the conditions are about the same as here in New Eng- 

 land. J'or a money maker I would recommend a crossbred 

 sheep, the first cross to be a Vermont merino ram on grade 



