| Show grow grove wool woot 0 Our U wn experience and observation obier tation have satisfied us that thee chete is fe no kind of farming that thit is is so generally genei ally aily profitable as a raising sheep and wool it matters not whether you are upon the bleak hills of vermont or in the fertile plains of texas upon the prairies of thweat th the west j or the now solitary mountains of the south everywhere and ana anywhere the sheep would live an and thrive and with proper care pay more for the capital invested than any other animal or any other system of farming farming it is one of the most usef useful uland and economical machineries which has been given us to convert the vegetation of the farm to money were it for the first time presented to us its we should consider the sheep one of the most wonderful animals nature has produced for the use of men its annual growth of wool so admirably adapted for human clo cio clothing thine and used in every portion of the globe its skin and flesh and in many localities its milk all serve for the ne ces saries or luxuries of man there is no animal in which there is so little waste or so little loss of all other animals the cow comes nearest to the sheep in ahe the profit it returns to the farmer for if we well wall cared for it will pay for itself each year by y the milk it yields and defray also a portion of the cost of keeping but the sheep for at least seven years of its life will give an annual fleece each vear year equal to the vaine value of the carcass and the yearly increase will be nearly or quite eual equal enal to the cost of keeping giving aa ail a general thing a profit of cent per cent Is there any branch of farmin farming or any legitimate business that will yield yfem fora for a series serles series serles of years a profit of ten per cent we that there is none the ile very idea that profits of fifty cent would iid ild be per wo realized in an any y branch of business would set the whole capital of the country ili in motion farms would be solda sold bold cuer euer merchants chants would s sell 1 ell eil stock banker close their banks and indeed every body pho phd had money to invest would rush into this gold mine we aver without fear of contradiction in truth thai that where arif atif tind of farm animals can I 1 find subsistence that sheep if properly attended to will give a net profit on the investment of 50 per cent and that with the ordinary management of farms it will give some 20 to 40 per cent that there is no dancer danger of overdoing 0 the business we have hive h ave ive shown repeatedly in 1 I previous ire numbers the ile annual increase of P population pul pui atlon in the union requires the wool from fro three millions of sheep so thit to clothe the increased population aou would fl d require an annual increase of sheep egnal equal to four millions but when we come to consider that there is now an annual deficiency of over seventy millions of pounds there can be no doubt that the wool wooi woo growing is the most stable pursuit that can b be e en engaged aged in we capiot cariot cannot glut the market nor will there be any long time that the market will be depressed beyond the profi profitable tanie point of production on the contrary we are certain tint thit no farm product goes goeb iee lee often below this point than wool it has long been a source of con constant slant wonder to us that so many farmers in ohio and the West etri states neglected ne z lecter the sheep for the very precarious rious rions business of grain growing every year will give them a crop crof crop of wool if they ther but bul take care of their sheep but there is no ino certainty for wheat prepare the good ground ever so well jf we have been rightly informed the wheat raided in the west hab haa cost the farmer more than he has obtained for it in market too much dependence has haa been placed aun urn this most L uncertain mc ertain and expensive crop wo we have tried wheat growing upon tipon probably as good a wheat farm as can be found in wes western tern tenn new york and we have also tried sheep upon the he same farm armand and are free to confess that although we have a good market at our own door yet we can raise a given amount of money quicker and much easier easler with a flock of or sheep than with wheat bai bat we ire find it well to raise boh sheep al and ana wheat heat as by that means we find we can get et a better profit than to be confined to either alone alone atone while indeed most land that can be plowed is the better to come at regular and not loep longy periods under the plow f with us and in this region region I 1 four years Is is as long as it proves profitable to leave land to grass very few resort to naked fallows some mow their clover early and let it grow till august when it is turned under cultivated and sown to wheat other mow the first year and pasture with sheep the second and hen then P plow aj every good farmer keeps a few sheep a at t least tah very many who have been id iri habit of putting up a large quantity of burn surn mer ilse vise now select out a few weli well wether aind d give them extra keep and make their summer meat of at mutton decidedly the most healthful that can be used fresh and thus realize the money for their pork ork fresh the enticements inducements to grow more wool are a sure market less leas fluctuation from the point of or profitable adf table tabie production than any farm product a larger g r interest or profit on the capital invested than tha any a ny other business and therefore the best i business as a central thing the farmer can follow LT T C peters petera in wool grower |
