Agricultural QUERiE?. 13^ 



ilow much pasture in good state is allowed to one cow ? 



How much hay is necessary for the food of one cow, in average 



years, during the winter, or independent of pasturage ? 



How many sheep are equal to one cow in the expense of keeping 



through the year ? 



What'is the comparative annual income of a cow and a sheep, both 



of middlmg quality ? 



What is about the number of cattle annually fatted in your town for 



the market ? What food, beside grass, is given them, while fatting ? 



What is the average weight of an ox, fatted for the market ? 



What is the price of a cow in autumn, in years when an average 



crop of hay is cut ? 



28. Sheep. On farms of average size what number of sheep are 

 usually kept ? 



What is the average number of lambs raised by any given number 

 of ewes ? 



What is the number of Merino and what of common sheep in your 

 town ? 



What is the average weight of the Jleece of each kind ? 

 What is tiae price of each kind of wool per lb. ? 

 Does the quantity of the fleece vary much in different years ? * 

 What is the usual time of shearing sheep ? 



Taking all circumstances into view, what is the difTerence in projii 

 between Merino and common sheep ? 



To what diseases are sheep subject ? Is the evil from this source 

 often very considerable ? 



What kinds or breeds of sheep are most liable to disease ? 

 Are sheep \n certaiii pastures ever subject to disease, while they 

 remain healthy in other pastures in the same vicinity ? 

 What food, beside grass and hay, is given to sheep ? 

 What quantity of pasture is allowed to one sheep, or, what is the 

 value of the pasturage of a sheep compared with that of a cow ? 

 What is the value of the food of one sheep during |hat part of the 

 year, when not at pasture, or, how many sheep will a ton of hay 

 support during the winter ? 



What is the average weight of the flesh of a full-grown sheep, fit 

 for the butcher ? 



Could not a larger number of sheep be supported without mate- 

 rially diminishing attention to other branches of agriculture,- pro- 

 vided encouragement were offered in the price of wool ? 

 What quantity of wool is annually manufactured in families for 

 their own use in your town ? And what quantity is annually sold 

 to the merchant or manufacturer? 



29. Horses. Are efforts extensively and steadily making to im- 

 prove the breed of horses ? 



Are horses often employed in labor instead of oxen ? 



What quantity of hay is eaten by a horse during that part of the 



year, when pasturage caiuiot be obtained ? 



30. Sivine. What breeds of swine pre most extexisivelv propa- 

 gated ? 



With what food usuallv fed and fatted ? 



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