Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-12

eis per pound more. than eoWIneR Yer
mont wool. There Is a growing demand
Tor good con,bing weol, and The manuiae-
turrrs assure me. that Il there were many
times as much 6rsl quality combiHg wool
raised in this country as there now Is It
would be as high rs nov. And am con-
iieni that nowhere can ihef grow a liner
and higher lusired eombing wool than
here in vermot. Aud | here say that it
u not best to let them get uueh wet be-
fore sheariug; as it is very important that
cnmbing wool should be open, and free
from colt. These sheep are particularly
adapted to our small farms. They eau
not 6e kept in large focks like fne wOols;
81 we have no fears Of competition from
Australia. or Texas. where one man with
three or four Natives. will tend thousand
or more. Our climate agrees with them;
keep them dry aud they pay no regard to
the cold. To show the difference between
those, and the common coarse wool sheep,
turn a small flock Of each into u pasture
of 80 acres. aud see the result the
coitvold will find their way over perhaps
not more than half the LOT during the sea.
sou just enough to get what they need,
in the fall they are SO fat they can hardly
20, and have occasionally bad one drop
dead, when could find no cause but over.
fairness. The other flock ia the mean
time have Travelled this lot over as often
as once a day and if there is gap in
the fence they arc sure TO Gnd it and do
not always stop to find gap, but go over
the top of the fence without ceremony,
aud of they go; and now for y chase TO
get them in again. They have only just
kept in good running order; they have
not taken on half us much flesh us the
others. aud will not sell. for more than
two-lhirds as much Tcr h.; at the same
tine they have corssmed more feed.
Now my experience is, one third Of
farm, stocked with cotswold sheep, viii
Yield greater profit, than two thirds OF
it stocked with COWS. Ittakes about the
same to keep six Of these sheep as COW.
Grade cottswold wether lambs, are worth
at wOcuing. $40 per head to grow up for
mutton.
This price paid for sixty ofthcse lambs
if kept three years and then sold, ptter
deductlng the money invested, with inter-
IS: will show much larger profit, than
the average 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, a flock of sixty
sheep, one half wcthers, the rest ewes,
would yield profit of more than twice
that Of TIE cows. have made my est.
alatc from my own experience of six or
eight years. This covers u period which
thousands of sheep have been slaughtered
for their pclts, while their pcltS would
scarcely pay for the slaughterlHg | will
now give my idea how these sheep can
be turned to the best advantage, on 4 good
grass farm. The lambs should be taken
from the mothers in August, AID tn c
welher lambs kept gaining until the win
lcrattcr they are three years old in the
three shearings you will get from % to
30 lbs of well washed wool from each
sheep. They will then weigh from 200
to 300 lbs each. This mutton will bring
from eight to twelve cts per ID live weight.
The ewes should have their first lambs
when two years old the last onc when
four, very early so the lambs may be
weaned the first of Aug, the ewes then
then put into good feed, will get as fat
as you can wish, with but little grain
These will average 200 lbs. or more.
1t is necessary that We should be
studying the demands of the
market. The scarcity Of heavy mutton
makes it always in good demand, and at a
good price and the demand is fast in
creasing.
The one great trouble in stocking the
country with these sheep, and supplying
the demand both for wool and mutton, is
the fear among most of our farmers of
paying too much for them. not eyon their
mutton va lue when il is plain TO be seen
they are a great improvement over oar
common sheep; so they 90 on raising in.
ferior stock in which there is no profit all
their lives, because they fear to run a
little risk. Their children are led to
think farming a hard uuproftuble bust
ness, and leave tho first opportunity
Now let the farmer commence with IL few
OF these sheep, and have his children
share in the care and profit ofthem they
will soon feel an interest, and no longer
think farming Improbable. There is nc
employment on the farm so remunerativc,
and so attractive for children, as the car,