SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 299 



RECEIPTS. 



2 ibs. wool per head is 200 Ibs., at 20 cents, - - - $40 00 



80 lambs at $1 when one year old, ...... 80 00 



- $120 00 



This is 85 per cent. In this instance the wool costs the farmer nothing, 

 Deduct $90, the value of the original stock of ewes at the commencement 

 nf the next year, from $140, the total outlay, and you have $50, which th 

 value of the lambs more than equal. 



Compare it with farming or planting : 



A. buys a negro for - - $700 00 



Furnishes him with fifteen acres of land at $5, - - - - - 75 00 



Half the expenses of a horse and plough, ------ 50 00 



For his board and clothing, - - - - - - - ' - - 20 00 



$845 00 



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His labor, 160 barrels corn at 40 cents, - - ' - - $04 00 



5 bags cotton at $30 a bag, ....... 1 50 00 



- 214 00 



This is equal to 25 per cent., certainly as much as any man in thia 

 neighborhood makes. I have purposely made this large estimate that no 

 one can say it is under the truth. 



B. buys 500 ewes and 20 bucks, common stock, at $1, - - - $520 00 



Employs a shepherd, .......... 175 00 



Pays 20 cents for winter feed per head, .----- 104 00 



Pays for tar and salt, .......... 20 00 



* B has $ 7/3 less than A. in the oiftlay, - - - - - - $819 00 



RECEIPTS. 



3 Ibs. wool per head is 1560 Ibs. at 20 cents, - $312 00 



80 lambs to the 100 ewes is 400 lambs at 1, - - 400 00 



- 712 00 

 Dnduct for loss over skins and wool of those that die, 2 per cent., 18 40 



60 



The outlay of A. ($890) brings him $210, equal to 25 per cent. The 

 outlay of B. ($819) brings him $693 60, equal to 85 per cent. 



This calculation will do for the neighborhood of Pendleton or lower down, 

 where sheep have to be fed during the winter. But for all that part of 

 Pickens and Greenville district, extending south for twenty-six or thirty 

 miles from the foot of the mountains, the profits would be larger. For in 

 that belt of country, I am informed by many residents General Garvin 

 among them that the range affords sufficient food for sheep the entire year. 

 Even when snow is on the ground, they paw the snow away and get sus- 

 tenance from the winter grass. 



For that section I would alter the calculation thus : 



B. buys 500 ewes and 20 bucks, ..... '- - $52000 



Pays for a shepherd, .......... 175 00 



Pays for salt and tar, - - ....... 20 00 



$715 00 



RECEIPTS. 



1560 Ibs. wool at 20 cents. ----- $312 00 

 90 lambs to the 100 ewes is 450 at $1, - - - 450 00 



- 762 00 



Deduct for loss 2 per cent, over skins and wool of those that di>, 3 f J 00 

 Making $28 more than 100 per cent - $ 743 



