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Estinmte of the probable Profit in keeping one thousand 

 Sheep, by Dr. Robert H. Rosey of Luzerne County, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Read February 3, 1814. 



We cheerfully insert the following information, respecting the 

 capabilities of our new countries to raise and keep large flocks of 

 sheep. It was not intended for publication ; but it has been deem- 

 ed worthy a place in our memoirs. 



The regret we feel under the deficiency of information upon the 

 popular subject of Sheep, is great indeed. We should have been 

 gratified by receiving, and promulgating, statements founded in 

 experience. Such might have been furnished ; practice having 

 enabled many of our fellow citizens to afford facts, on a topic of 

 such general concern. Those facts would encourage the timid ; or 

 check the over ardent zeal of the miscalculating and unwary. The 

 following is more conjectural than practical ; but it results from 

 inquiries made by one of our very intelligent members, aided by 

 other men of respectability ; whose opinions we highly value. Al- 

 though it appears to be local, as to the scene in which the data are 

 placed ; yet it will equally well apply to all our new countries, un- 

 der the like circumstances wi^h Susquehanna county ; as most of 

 them are. It will, at least, furnish hints, of no small importance 

 to those who would wish to give value to their newly settled, or 

 settling property ; by encouraging its occupants to enter into the 

 sheep business, on a suitable scale ; especially in situations wherein 

 i^razing is preferred to iillat^e. 



The following calculation, respecting* the cost of 

 keeping one thousand sheep, in Susquehanna county, 

 is made by Captain Birchard, Z. Bliss, and P. Catlin, 

 Esq. whom I consider as among the most prudent and 

 judicious men in our county. 



