PRACTICAL PAPERS—FATTENING SHEEP. 
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THE FATTENING OF SHEEP IN WINTER 
A paper read before, and published by, the New York State Agricultural Society, 1869. 
BY JURIAN WINNE, OP NEW YORK. 
The subject before us is “The managing and feeding of 
fat sheep in winter,” together with the difference in the 
various breeds. My first rule is, always to buy good stock, 
whatever the breed may be, and to be sure to select animals 
kindly disposed to fatten. The price of well-bred sheep may 
appear to be high, but depend upon it, if there is no money in 
feeding good stock, there is no money in poor. It will not do 
(as has often been said), to buy any kind of sheep for feeding, 
that you can double your money upon; for a one-dollar sheep 
will consume about as much feed as a six-dollar one, and as 
neither of them can be fed througb the feeding season for 
much short of five dollars a head, you will readily perceive 
that the one-dollar sheep would stand you in vsix dollars, the 
other eleven dollars. 
According to my experience, the one-dollar sheep would 
weigh in the spring about eighty 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 —€i 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. 
