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serious loss, a greater distance than ten miles. The shorter 

 the distance the greater the profits. Very early lambs at 

 sixty pounds weight are sold by our breeders at from three 

 to five dollars each. From one station in Sumner county 

 lambs to the value of forty thousand dollars were sold in 

 1878. And this business is constantly increasing, because 

 Tennessee is the last State going South where prime mutton 

 sheep can be raised, and their lambs come, therefore, into 

 an earlier and a bare market. 



