[Ill] 



One hundred ewes at $2 $200 00 



Four rams at $10 , 40 00 



$240 00 



Average price of 80 lambs $240 00 



Four hundred pounds wool at 30 cts 120 00 



Four rams at $10 40 00 



One hundred fat sheep at $5 500 00 



$900 00 



The manure will well repay the attention given them, 

 and the only money expense attending this transaction is 

 the food necessary to be used during the hard weather of 

 the winter. Those who follow this plan usually are well 

 supplied with blue- grass pastures and the food raised on the 

 place; so that, in selling the sheep, they really are only 

 selling their crops at a full price, as well as utilizing the 

 grass that would otherwise be lost. It may be objected 

 that no deduction is made for incidental loss of sheep; but 

 every flock- master will testify that the surplus of lambs 

 over 80 per cent will fully compensate for all losses, unless 

 the farmer is criminally negligent and suffers, for want of 

 proper protection, his flocks to be destroyed by dogs and 

 starvation. Here is a gross profit, on an investment of 

 $240, of $660, and estimating the feed, over and above the 

 grass, to be $1.50 a head, there is a net profit of $350. 

 Remember, too, that the $300 go into his own pocket for 

 farm produce, and we cannot think of anything a farmer 

 can raise on his farm that will surpass this small invest- 

 ment. By taking care in the purchase, he can often get the 

 ewes for a less sum than here stated, and I am sure the 

 prices received are of the most reasonable character. The 

 earliest lambs, indeed, rarely sell below four dollars each, 

 while the latest ones, provided they are good and fat, will 

 bring the estimated price, $ 3.00. So this must be taken as 

 a fair average experiment. 



Another gentleman bought 25 ewes in August, for which 

 lie paid $75. In the following May he sold the lams, num- 



