pounds, and sell for seven cents per pound, which 

 would make five dollars and sixty cents — a loss 

 of forty cents, when the six-dollar one would 

 weigh at least one hundred and twenty -five 

 pounds, and sell for ten cents per pound, making 

 twelve dollars and fifty cents— a profit of one 

 dollar and fifty cents, besides getting the credit 

 in the one case of bringing good stock to market, 

 and in the other such as will be hooted at, and 

 reported for you as scalawags. Now, as every 

 good citizen values his reputation (and what is 

 a man good for without it), I think this last item 

 should not be lost sight of. 



Next in order then, will be the conveniences 

 for fattening. It is bad policy in this country 

 to undertake to fatten sheep in winter, with 

 no protection or shelter, save a few trees or 

 the side of some old building. I recollect an 

 instance of that kind of feeding, which I went 

 to see some ten years ago, where a man had 

 about three hundred sheep feeding, running in a 

 four or five acre lot, without any protection, save 

 such as I have just described. It rained a little 

 while I was there, the ground was soft, although 

 it was February, and his sheep (though other- 

 wise nice good ones), looked wet, lank and 



