The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-23
proiita On wool Growing.


ProHta on Wool Growing.
In previous number we undertook tOl
show that, If double The quantity Of wool
was grown that is now produced in this
couniry, il would still find profitable
market; and we promised to show that, in
proportion 10 the risk and capital involved,
there was no kind Of farming that wns as
profitable for a. series of syearseas wool
growing, We now proceed 70 redeem our
pledge. rl s.t. 4
IN this country (by which we mean our
whole glorious Union, stretching from the
! Atlantic to The Pacific ocean) there is but
little land that is moi adapted 10 sheep hus.
bandry that is at oil susceptible Of cultiya-
tion.l Wherever herbage will grow, pro-
vided the land is not wet or marshy, there
sheep will thrive; and they will thrive
well where larger stock, like cattle or horses
would starye if kept in numbers large
enough to yield revenue. There are.
the refore, tracks Of land where the COM
parison cannot be made, so much is itin
favorof sheep. But we propose to make
the comparison in regions where land Is
at "a high price from lis proximity TO mar-
ket and Of great fertility, and TO draw the
, comparison between the dairy and grain
! growing, supposing the farmer to devote
: his attention to one or the other of these
branches. We wllossume that thirty-6ve
: acres Ct land will keep one hundred sheep
yeur, summer and winter; twenty acres
for pasture, ten for meadow, and five for
grain. The interest being the same in
= each case, shall not take that into ac-
count, nor the expense Of feeding, or val
; ue Of manure, while comparing with COWS.
100 sheep will give $50 lbs, wool,
nj 35c. $l22 5O
y y,lne of annual increase $500
Annual income from sheep $l97 5o
: Ten COWS can be kept upon the same
: ground that will keep one hundred sheep
. II in cheese or butter the annual income
. per COW will average about the same ter
= cows will give, say upon an average three
: hundred pounds Of cheese 1t is true tlla
: there are instances when larger yielt
Z Z has been obtained, but the average is be
III low the quantity we have assumed. AL
lowing the cheese to bring five cents pei
pound, it will give $l5 tor each COW, or
es For ten cows $l5(
ID Whey, per COW, w ~
ly] Annual income for ten cows VIII
to We have not taken into consideration
N the milk used in the family, as we conside
?, D. that as more than balanced by the extr
y - expense incurred in the dairy. This the
: shows that there is a difference in favor
r, sheep of $27 81, OF almost Is per cen,
e. Thirty-fve acres of winter wheat wi
at average, outside, for series of years, nc
IN over twenty bushels per acre, with a draw
lis back of a failure, at least once in fv
n,' n years. Allow for preparing the land 70
n' * seed, harvesting, and threshing, that it sha
~, sn cost but five dollars per acre. aud tina
C. &C. wheat will average 75c per bushel, it wouI
ed give them ten dollars per acre net, for III
of use of the land for two years, thiity.ii.
led acres Of wheat at 80 per acre would
ial $3.50, ,halfcf that would give annually fort q
Do D., use of thirty-fve acres Of land Sl74, ma
.d .d ing difference in favor Of sheep Of S22 5
The The or about ii per cent. The real ,itferenc
th. we apprehend, especially at the West, W
IN be found altogether greater than it nPpea
nit in this estimate. We think farmer CT
ere grow six pounds of wool easier than he CT
raise o b,lshel Of wheat one year with a
:. other, anywhere west of this city. v
ln' have made no allowance in this estimo
~, for the constant wear Of the land ii co
30 tinued to wheat--nor of the great advo
Jus tage to the land of the manure made ]
Ia cows and sheep. In the one case the la
o'O at the end of twenty years would be mll
e enhanced in value, because its increns
'"' fertility--in the other, at the end oi
,:e years, as general rule, il would bear
'no a slight crop at best-and at twenty
&C. would be worn out. Neither have
VIC adverted to the very small amount Of
4; Dor it requires 10 take care Of sheep,
'u compared with the dairy or wheat grown
- We think, however, we have show
o'' enough to make out our case. If any he
can make out better let us hear it,
0'o we are anxious for facts. Give us fac
80. we do not care what shape they come in
i''' One fact is worth bushel of theory,
-, theory is soil wherin facts do germinate
ha'' Wool Gr0Der
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