Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-12-24
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BELLOWS FALLS. DEC. "a, 1869
Westminster Farmers Club.
THE MOST PROFITABLE STOCK FOR THE
NEXT FIVE YEARS.

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The discussion was opened by Mr.. n.
G. Pierce who said it was a question of
Importance. We know what kind of
stock has led for the last five years and
1 think there is no question which will
be the most .prsGta' etar-the next five
years, and that will be cows.
True farm can be stocked for less
with sheep, but let US see the relative
bearing between the two kinds of stock,
sheep and cows. One hundred sheep will |
eat about the same as Is cows. Now !
will make such an estimate upon the in
come of the COWS as will bear largede-
cline in prices. / will only require each
COW to make five lbs. of butter per week
for 80 weeks in the year, equal to 100
lbs. and l will call the price % cents
pound, 371 dollars. It may be more
work than to care for the sheep, but for
this I have reckoned nothing for the
calves. the hogs or extra amount of ma
nure made. Now the 100 sheep will
shear in April in dirt about 800 pounds
of wool. l will put the price of wool
Just what it brought this year, 80 cents
, per pound, $3.50; allow so lambs besides
keeping flock good worth $50, $75 in
come, amounting to 1925. Cows s562,-
so. believe the man who now stocks
with sheep, will make a mistake. |
bought few sheep this fall and have
Il been sorry but once and that was all the
time.
- D. C. WRIGHr.-I don't believe we
can fix upon any one kind Of stock; Ii
we do, and go into it the products OF ii
will 90 down. l think We had better
keep mixed stock for profit; then we
are prepared for these ups and downs
We Yankees are apt to carry thing too
far. A few years since when we went t'
- an auction the sheep were kept until tn
last and sold from to % dollars apiece
Nobody wanted cattle. Now sheep VII
on sell from so cents to $3.50 head.
am reminded Of friend of mine VIII
has ever been successful in making nor
1T ey, who always buys an article when e'
OF erybody wants to sell, and sells when e.
'' ervbody wishes to buy, therefore | hay
faith in sheep. The trouble was we wei
oyerstocked with them now we are g
the t + ing as far the other way and that rapi'
rses " in one school district in this vicinit
lpt- they raised 500 lambs less in one seaso
&C. than the season before. In this the wo
S clip last year fell off one-third and WI
- more the next. tell you if we all
into sheep, down it goes; if we all ke'
'aHgt aiFt cows we shall swim in butter or chees
isd- sed These things are some like the boys
I . of the slab across a log, first one goes
5Tl1 sIGT then the other down.
ms ms o. L. FIsHER.-I have thought 1t
Tiot e Of good time to get a good flock OF shef
% curt as | think he who passes through the
'tion .i,| times and has a poor flock of she
makes mistake. It docs not ma
: much difference achat we keep if we Ike
,oeH. We are not all situated to Ike
2GHT. ar. cows. would stick to the sheep, thou
t t fet aet dairy, if mans farm was situa'
ys; yscu- right, might pay as we'll.
s !. .l5, ad- HENRY PAGE.-Much depends uE
Will the situation Of our farms, what to ste
Read with, in making beef or mutton. We'
{, = de, , not careful enough in selecting to be
prem with, to make it pay, as to making
dso, speciality. In keeping stock am dou
- full, but would advise keeping mi
stock.
,T Tsaii said IRA SMITH, can make more mo
IoTclL Owe; on sheep than COWS. l can keep
eap0n aia on sheep on one ton of good hay, and in
eTeso eoI es, tenipr. can make three lbs. of NUT
iRs 3ndse Hs as cheap as one of beef.
cStion SGEG, n. FrsHER-If we all go into c'
ednes, Gl1se down it goes; the current is changes
can De favor Of sheep, they are slaughter
s Iase' them terribly West, again; but few
lilies have help to manage dairy
eogrt we cannot hire. Dairying is the
&, { Dan an business just now, but shortly will
+ .Iss; O., low as sheep business, l doubt the
q ta .sid cy of shifting. Butter and cheese
decide be lower, wool cannot be.
elps in FULLY CLARK.-Cows and dair
! heard will 90 down before you know it,
udse. 1S4s bought COWS for sl1, and you
soon again.
9 cour w. r. KIaBALL.-There are prob
Of EN- as many minds as there are kline
Tiye: stock; some say COWS, others horses
"a: fied others might take sheep; all are wo
terested Z rested but l will take cows. How con
rpoIe anS ssGf Of they are, at the same time how fe
ps5seIil s sel derstand the relative valueof their
1,s as5 4 bss ns leach cow How many farmers
ipRssssi /. sisis loosing hundreds of dollars every
sT.at wlll as by keeping COWS that will not yield
q ID in ,ses aid than two hundred pounds of butte
premises wear, instead of those that yield #
Judge FIVE hundred pounds in the same