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$358. Ten calves, at $4 50 each, amount to $45, the whole 

 making $403. Estimate the expense of a dairy woman, in- 

 cluding board, at two and a half dollars per week, or $65 for 

 the season, and the expense of milking and driving the cows, 

 at the same rate per week, being $65 more for the season. 

 Deduct these expenses, from the value of the butter and veal, 

 and we have $273 for the net income of the cows. 



Now for the sheep. The same pasture, by the visual mode 

 of reckoning, will carry fifty sheep. They will yield three 

 pounds of wool each. At thirty-five cents per pound, this 

 will amount to $52 50. I estimate the number of lambs to be 

 seventy. These at $2 50 each, are worth $175. The wool 

 and lambs are consequently worth $227 50. The next item 

 to be considered, is the gain of the flock by fattening. The 

 sheep must be supposed to have the same advantage from fall 

 feed that cows usually do. The flock will then be fit for the 

 butcher in autumn. I will only suppose two fat sheep to be 

 worth three store sheep. The flock of fifty now becomes 

 seventy-five. We now have the positive gain of twenty-five 

 fat sheep. At $2 50 each, these are worth $62 50. 



The account now stands thus : 



Income of tlie sheep, . j . . $290 00 



Income of the cows, .... 273 00 



Balance in favor of sheep, . . . $17 00 



I have reckoned the lambs at $2 50 each, only. Take the 

 price offered to Dr. Kittredge, for his lambs this year, viz., four 

 dollars each, for a standard, and how rapidly does the balance 

 increase, in favor of sheep.* 



Objections on account of Climate considered. 



The advocates of Southern sheep husbandry, triumph in the 

 idea, that a climate like theirs, allowing sheep to run at lai:ge 

 through the winter,f is the only one where sheep can be raised 

 to advantage. But is there no substitute for a Southern cli- 



* I might have allowed cows to average more butter, and calves to be worth more, 

 and still leave a balance for the sheep, 

 t See the " Plough, Loom and Anvil," for Jan. 1851. 



