SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN SOLTH CAROLINA. 299 



RECEIPTS. 



2 lbs. wool per head is 200 lbs., at 20 cents, - - - $40 oo 



^0 lambs at $1 when one year old, - - - - - - SO 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 e»ves at the cornmencement 

 of the next year, from $140, the total outlay, and vou have $50, which thf 

 iralue 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 



nEClIFTS. 



His labor, 160 barrels corn at 40 cents, .... $64 00 

 6 bags cotton at $30 a bag, 150 00 



$214 OC 



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

 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$l, ... $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 $>3 less ±an A. in the outlay, .... - - $81900 



RECEIPTS. 



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



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



712 00 



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



$6'13 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 beh 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, $520 OC 



Pitys for a shepherd, 175 OO 



Pays for salt and tar, 20 00 



$713 Oa 



RECEIPTS. 



ir)CO lbs wool at 20 cent.=, $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 <M j, 1^ 00 

 Making $2S more than 100 per cent. ^'^^^ ^ 



