Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
Nebraska as Live Stock ooun-
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F. Bes yes, sheep, hogs and horses lone
or all, there is millions in them. Al
the base of all there is the illtmitable
market, wide as the world, Then comes
I the low down cost Of production TO sup
- zs :sSSsss- tsaEkef--the low cost because
the climate fayoTs health and yigot in
animal life, experience proving that
there is 40 viTuieDt form of disease among
stock ia Nebraska, and because, even on
the wild prairie, the pastursge afforded
ly the native grasses being abundant,
and all the hay that is required obtaina-
bic at the cost of cutting. Grain feed,
of course, is cheap; and sufficient shelter
for the winter months is obtained by
building the rough prairie stable OF posts
and boards, covered and wrapped as
with q blanket by piled up straw and
hay. No one has commenced as flock
master, and not found the avocation
profitable. In 1875 flock of Cotswolds
shepherded on the plains, yielded Messrs.
Creighton, of Omaha, an average fleece
of 10lbs per head, the price they realized
being 40 cents per pound i'll the dirt.
The Hon. Moses Stocking of Wahoo,
in Saunders county, had on July 1st,
1874, a flock of 1852 Merinos which he
valued at So per head, amounting to $4.-
$50; and from these on June Both, 1875,
his profit was So, 495 80. Mr.. A. ID.
Richie, an experienced flock master of
Orion, Seward county, states that his
profits for the sheep year 1856 exceed
bis most sanguine expectations, and he
believes he can get his money back each
year, and have the flock on which he
starts besides. Instances of this kind
rNt.lI J. oF nj II hn CQid
however, that there are now Is, 900 sheep
in Gage county; aud at sheep shearing
festival held 81 Beatrice, the county seat,
on May II, 1876, Mr.. s. q. Carey ex-
hibited Meliuo fleece weighing 20 lbs.
IS OF. and second fleece from o three
year old MeTino lamb weighing IS lbs.
5 OF Messrs Paddock IS Long, fleeces
weighing 10 to 143 lbs each, and Mr..
Moses Stocking fleece of IS lbs. ! OF.
from q two-year old Infantsdo ram.
The business is rapidly decreasing, and
soon textile manufacturers will look to
the Nebraska plaIie for large annual
supply of wool. Mr. Cornelius Jansen
Gone of the leaders of the Russian Men
nonites, who are making Nebraska their
home1 on $50 acres of land purchased
from the B. & NJ. Company, has estab-
Hshed a Hook OF ], bSU grace Merino
sheep, and herd of 100 blooded cattle,
choosing Nebraska for his enterprise af-
ter carefully examining The country
from Southern Kansas to the Red River
of the north; and Mr.. III. s. Maloney, a
capitalist of New York Ga practical flock
master) WHO has large landed interests
in Illinois, has purchased two sections of
land, and leased one section from the
State, in the Republican river country.
To this ranch he is bringing 8, 000Merino
ewes from New Mexico, and thorough
bred Merino rams from Vermont, anti
cipating from the cross large sheep
and heavy fleece in Nebraska, which in
the matter of sheep he considers destined
to be the Scotland of the States. In
cattle the prairie herdmen are accumu-
lating fortunes. - Communicated.