Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-08


as mutton it is extensively used by the En-
glish. IL is certainly superior to pork. The
wool will pay for keeping, as when well kept
they will shear from 10 to 20 lbs. unwashed
wool. This wool is free from oil and gum,
and will always bring from 10 to zO cents
per pound more than common wool. Ihere
is growing demand for good comblng wool,
and the manufacturers assure me tnat il
there were many times as much hrst quality
combing wool raised in this country as there
now is it would be as high as now Ana L
am confident that nowhere can they grow
finer and higher lustered combing wool than
here in Vermont. And here say tnat 1t IS
not best TO let them get much wet oeiore
shearing, as it is very important that comb
ing wool should be open and free from cot''
These sheep are particularly adapted to our
small farms. They cannot be kept IN large
Hocks like fine wools, SO we have no fears oil
competition from Australia or Texas where
one man with three or four natives Will tend
a thousand or more. Our climate agrees
with them keep them dry and they pay no
regard to the cold. 10 show the difference
between those and the common coarse wool
sheep, turn small foek OF each into past
ure of 90 acres and see the result. The cots
wolds will find their way over perhaps not
more than hall the lot curing Tue SEASON.
just enough to get what they need In tne
fall they are SO tat they can hardly CO. ana
| have occasionally had one drop dead, When
l could hnd no ether cause out oVer'la'ness'
The other flock in the meantime have travel
ed this lot over as often as once a uay' ana
if there is gap in the fence they are sure 10
find it, and do not always stop to hnd gap
but go over the top OF the fence without GER
emony, and Oft they go anc now Tor chase
to get them in again. Ihey nave only just
kept in good running order they nave not
taken on half as much hesh as the otners'
and will not sell for more than two-thirus as
much per h., while at the same time they
have consumed more feed.
Now my experience is, ,one-third oil iarm'
stocked with cotswold sheep, will yield a
greater profit than two-thirds OF it stocked
with cows. 1t takes about the same to keep
six of these sheep as COW. Grade cOtswold
wcther lambs are worth at weanlDg Si0 per
head to grow up for mutton.
This price paid for sixty Of these lambs
If kept three years and then sold, after de-
Quoting the money invested with interest
will show much larger profit than the aver
age dairies Of ten cows, after deducting
the necessary expense of care OF the dairy
over and above that OF the sheep and on this
basis flock of 60 sheep; half wethers, the rest
ewes, would yield proht oil more than TWICE
that oil the cows l nave maze my estimate
from my own experience oi SIX Or e'S"' years
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