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is  saliferous,  nud  boiug  always  cut  early, 
is  doubly  liked  by  the  sheep.  The  sup¬ 
plementary  food  is  roots  and  oats.  She 
thinks  that  the  fleece  amply  pays  fur 
their  keep,  and  that  the  lamb  is  to  the 
good,  and  is  clear  profit.  It  does  not 
take  much  to  keep  a  healthy  flock  of 
ewes  through  the  Wiuter  and  Spring. 
Mother  feeds  only  about  a  half-bushel 
(.30  pounds)  of  roots  to,  say,  10  sheep, 
and  she  thinks  this  is  enough.  She  feeds 
only  an  average  of  one-half  pound  of  oats 
a  day  during  the  six  months  of  Wiuter 
and  Spring,  or  to  well  past  lamhing  time, 
which  is  first  of  May.  In  very  cold 
weather  she  feeds  no  roots  at  all.  She 
estimates  that  she  feeds  on  an  average 
not  much  over  six  bushels  of  roots — tur¬ 
nips  and  potatoes  (potatoes  here  can  be 
grown  almost  as  cheaply  as  turnips)  and 
90  pounds  of  oats  (average  price  40  cents 
at  thrashing  time)  value  of  oats  $1.05. 
Counting  the  roots  at  five  cents  a  bushel, 
the.  cost  is  30  cents  for  the  roots  fed  per 
head.  The  oat  straw  has  no  market 
value,  and  therefore  is  not  counted,  so 
that  the  total  feed  cost  is  but  $1.35  for 
the  six  months’  wintering.  As  to  cost  of 
pasturing  she  claims  sheep  should  he 
charged  nothing,  for  sheep  have  a  “gold¬ 
en  hoof,”  and  the  manure,  both  in  the 
Winter  as  well  as  in  the  Summer,  is 
quite  an  item.  But  the  cost  of  fencing 
is  the  chief  item.  This  is,  however,  im¬ 
possible  even  fairly  to  estimate,  as  fences 
of  some  kind  must  necessarily  be  kept  up 
on  account  of  the  other  farm  stock.  As 
her  fleeces  this  year  average  $2.62,  this 
leaves  a  margin  of  $1.27  to  pay  for  up¬ 
keep  of  fences  in  always  good  repair,  per¬ 
sonal  care  and  what  not,  which  she  feels 
sure  is  much  more  than  covers  all  of 
those  items,  so  that  she  is  quite  safe  in 
saying  that  the  lamb  in  the  Fall,  at,  say 
$6,  is  clear  profit  Her  lamb  crop  aver¬ 
aged  this  year,  as  nearly  always,  a  lit¬ 
tle  over  100  per  cent.,  that  is  one  strong 
healthy  Iamb  saved  for  each  owe  in  the 
flock,  and  as  she  always  breeds  her  lambs 
in  the  Fall,  not  believing  in  keeping  a 
sheep  "two  years  for  nothing,”  and  with 
the  exception  of  the  ram,  the  whole  flock 
is  composed  of  breeding  ewes,  including 
the  year-olds,  the  net  profits  of  the  whole 
flock  equal  the  sale  price  of  one  lamb  per 
head  of  flock,  or  about  $6  per  head.  A 
good  profit  surely,  and  the  total  receipts 
per  head  are  or  will  be,  $8.62%,  not  bad 
for  an  old  woman  of  eighty. 
J.  A.  MACDONALD. 
Prince  Edward  Island. 
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