THE CINCINNATI WEEKLY ENQUIRER
March 24, 1880
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle
transcribed by Tina Hursh
About Sheep
transcribed by Tina Hursh
About Sheep
Hamilton Co., Ohio, February,
1880.
The editor suggests that
the farmers send in their experience in regard to their profits in
raising
diferent kinds of grain and stock.
I find in my farm
record what we did with a small lot of sheep in the year 1876. In
the spring, after shearing-time, we bought a lot of fourteen (having
just
sold one flock). The fourteen sheep cost us $40, being low at
that
time of the year. The next May we sold nine buck lambs to the
butcher
at $3 25 per head, making $29 25. In June, we sold the wool
clipped
from them, seventy-five pounds, at twenty-three cents per pound, making
$17 25. Besides, we had eight fine ewe lambs left, worth $4 each,
making $32. Counting the wool, the lambs sold, and those kept,
the
amount was $78 50 from the $40 invested. We have done very nearly
as well every year since.
In order to have
your buck lambs ready for the early spring market, they should come in
January. Thos. SHROYER.
