Show SHEEP HUSBANDRY tiling in ito in the income iruin during alic last three or four years prices of wool have been so low that miny farmers have acconio dissatisfied slice farming and have dotur cincil to give up this branch of their business boine have already dorothis don othis and others aro trying to sall their upon a depressed market audit is probably true that alio hocks of a majority of who arc not trying to sell receive far less careful attention than thou clucks would receive were wool froin forty to fifty cants per pound thus blocks might bu inside to yield a fair direct careful keeping bacome through neglect it is in almost anny bushier to give tho greater care and attention to that branch which brings in tho greater immediate ic turns but it may not bo always to do so it will be found that taking any period of ten successive years sheep keeping lias averaged as well in returns as lias almost any branchi of fanning and there to bo no good reason for supposing that this will not bo true of the next ten years alio wool market is depressed but so is lie market potatoes form a large part of the farm products of this country and farmers think alic price of potatoes too low to pay oits and hay anro selling for prices below those w kiich farmer feel that they ought to get for jhc thc c staples and hero aro ullar farm products are adling at ciuros which producers anro ready to declare too low to yield rt living yet it would be only folly to refuse to plant potatoes or corn or sow oats or this year because prices aro low in farming operations it is especially true that it is alic general average results which decide as to tho profitableness of anny given crop and not tho result of ono or two years it may be well to look carefully into alic sheep growing branch of farming lieford deciding that it y karn mutton i supposed to have comparatively little vadiu and that place can scarcely bu found forms but one of several branches of work on the farm fair consideration of all tho advantage arising from hii bandry will doubtless convince the lannor that the hoof of the licca is golden till liberal estimates place the cost of keeping sheep nt tfx per head per year al current rates fair will about 2 each lambs may bu estimated at sa each if it bo assumed that the number of lambs carried safely through weaning be to fifty per cent of tho bumber of in tho aock alic direct annual will be 53 each fur alie kept or 1 per head profit to thi t hould be added the profit which comas from alio llio conversion of the forage of the farm tho brush and weed alio grain and roots into rich manure anil into marketable mutton and wool alio exact of the work dono by the sheep in keeping fence rows ind other places free irom weed brambles and brush bo casily calculated nor can that of their services in spreading rich fertilizing material evenly over alic land all have a practical and by no means small value which should bo considered in counting the income from Irn bandry pittsburgh stockman A country merchant in wood crun ty ohio set a spring gun in his store every night for thirteen years being i awarded but tho other ho blazed away and brought down two robbers patience will get ip hp ud deceit free prof 1 |