PEOPITS Oy WOOL PRODUCTION. 99 



value of which is therefore about £90 per year, or 4s. 6<?. per 

 sheep. * * ^ Three hundred sheep haye in this manner 

 (with 'a standing fold on some dry and convenient spot, well 

 littered with straw or stubble,') produced eighty large cart- 

 loads ^.f dung between October and March, and in this 

 manner, after the expenses have been deducted, each sheep 

 has earned 3d. per week." 



A hundred Merino sheep, given abundance of bedding 

 will, between December 1st and May 1st, make at least forty 

 two -horse loads of manure — and if fed roots, considerably 

 more. I scarcely need to say that both the summer Snd 

 wmter manure of the sheep is far more valuable than that 

 ot the horse or cow.* Its manure on high-priced land which 

 requires fertilizers, cannot be estimated at less than 50 cents 

 per head per annum, and I should be inclined to nut it 

 still higher. ^ 



The value of the lambs and manure is the minimum of 

 pront. ihat profit increases just as the market value of land 

 f^ w^.""^*. S*" peeping decreases. On the rich plains of 

 the West and South-west, manure is not yet reckoned among 

 the appreciable profits, and the cost of transporting wool to 

 market is from one to two cents per pound. The Western 

 grower, then gets the lamb and about half the fleece, as the 

 profit on each sheep. The Texan grower gets the lamb and 

 about three-quarters of the fleece, and so on. I do not 

 deduct the extra prices paid from time to time for rams 

 because each good one vastly more than pays for himself iil 

 increasing the value of the flock. 



The prices of lambs of different blood and in different 

 places, vary too much to admit of even an approximately 

 uniform rate of estimatmg them. But it does not anywhere 

 costmore to raise a full -blood than a grade Merino lamb! 



follo*^nrremirks\1pSed7n mHa "/ ''j^ "■'J- States. The 



cows «.vinot returned to their pSS at nteM^r^ri,?"'^^^^^^ 1862:- " If milch 

 night is not returned to thrpLtoes the d"Kn?e?nX t;^?','''-^ manure made in the 

 named in the text, is still greater. Even ctSb cttH J^£»^r„ ""l^'f 'P "-e particular 

 and whose manure is much better than tlStSf f „•- ^^P' constantly in the pastures, 

 the sheep in enrichingTni SSure of she?nT/=^^^^^ "''* £*'H S'S?"'' '"f^""'' ^ 

 distributed in a way that kdmSSnfmffoi„„^l^ stronger, better distributed, and 

 down among the Zu of the CTaiMdarpinlV^'V* ^°'*" ''°™<' P''"^'^ soon work 

 wind. EacE pellet has a colt^f micSs which ?tfii f,l?.,?™'■^P''?'^■°.'^*i'•'"n ™° »"« 

 of these out of the grass it TriU he fnnn7ti!f ™ ' I further protects it. On taking one 

 lower side, directly among toe roots whi^A S?'*^"'" " SraloaUy dissolving it ol the 

 Finally, if 'there are hill to^ps, dryTnolS or elevat?n''„\'„'i.''=*'^'*r'/'^'=M™^'''= «""■•«■ 

 sheep almost invariably lie oi them nights thirdpS^ l'?** '" '?■" I"'^'"''^' '^e 



on the least fertile part of the land an! where th^wfA^F,-t°Jf,'l? ?°''''™ °' """"re 

 manure of the milch cow, apaSom iti intrinst^SJril-f'"-'^ ^/ less wasted. The 

 which give up their best conteSstSfteatmosXri^f^^^^^^^ deposited in masses 

 beaten to pieces and distributed ovSMesoU" they are dry enough to be 



