The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-03-26
From the American Agricuiturist. ]
Tim Bunker on Getting the Best.

Tim Bunker on Getting the Best.
81 can't afford it," said Jake Frink,
ne he looked into my flock OF sheep,
and declined to take q Cotswald ram
that offered him for 500.
That's n smahin' price for sheep,
Square," said Uncle johann Sparrow.
grass. "Never heerd the like ont on
the Island. A hundred dollars would
buy a decen: horss."
Can You afford 10 keep the sheep
You've got now" ! asked.
swell. never thought much about
that" said Jake. IL keep 'em. and |
guess il pays about as well US any
thing"
Your scrub Sheep" said |. "proh
ably pay yon a dollar a head above
III, cost OF Keeping. Mutton and
wool are all YOU get OF them for mar.
lct, and not mnch of either. The
Cotswolds will give you these, and a
s,r'pe aitisie OF stock to sell, which
will give you more PR lit than the
flesh aud wool With this breed YOU
get carcass two or three time ,as
large. and the meat will bring higher
price in market. BY using a thorough.
lxcd ram, it you do not want to raise
ifhem for stock. SOU will get larger
lambs, and they will be ready for
market in June. when the bncthers
will give You big prices. 1t pays
much better to get six dollars for a
lamb than three. especially il you
don't have TO keep him so long. That
hnnd red dollar ram would serve yonr
forty ewes, and it you only got dol
lar II head more for the lambs. il
would make a difference Of forty dol. ,
lars 10 the years receipts from your.
flock. II you raised the eve lamb !"
aud got bigger stock to breed from.
j, would pay you still better. Here.
in New England, where almost every .
farm is within an hours ride of a
good market, and where the butchers
come to your door to purchase every
animal you can raise. size in a calf or
lamb is very desirably quality
Lamb, as meat, retails for IS cents
pound, and they can afford TO pay :,
well for lambs that will dress thirty or
forty pounds. There is no more trouble
IN getting large lambs than small ones
i yon only have the right stock to
start with"
:; "Tbat's so, Square," said Seth
rwiggs, "bnt them big sheep are hard
IN feed. The quantity Of hay and
urnips they'll make way with is as
onishing to hay-mows and root II
CELLARS" al
WELL" l replied, "what is fodder
rood for but to be eaten. And if you
get more for feeding hundred ponnds \
If hay to one animal than to three.
letter feed one, and save the care and
-isk Of two of them. A sheep is a
machine to turn fodder into wool and 7
mutton, and that is the best breed }
hat will give me the most for my
iodder, cold in this form. AS rule, II
he more sheep eats, the more nut :
ION and wool it makes, and the better
t pays"
Jake FrinK could not exactly see|
this, though it must be clear enough
10 people that have brains. The
''Saleratus man" has got hold Of the :
true doctrine in farming. "Ges the
best" should be hung up az motto
over every farmers door. Here lies, o.
mainly, the secret Of success. This
makes the difference between thrifty
and unthrifty farmers. A man down.
in Shutdown last year bought wild
gander to put with one of his common !.
geese. He started for some mongrel
geese, which he knew brought the a
highest price in market. He fed them
we'll, and got the goose to laying early.
The first laying Of eggs be get under
hens, and the second the goose hatch. .
id herself, twenty-one goslings In all,
which all grew up, and were sold in
the fall for $50. The feathers were
sold for Sill, making SOL as the pro.
ceeds Of single pair OF geese for the
season. The high price Of the mon :
grel geese, as well as skill in rearing,