Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-04-11
mutton sheep until 1873. /

mutton sheep until 1919. In
1859 my wool brought -.$ $3.50
1870. ............. IS AZ
1871 77.73
1872 1911
1919 -. .......... 20l0O
1874 223 90
"ifty-eis lit mutton sheep brought 256.to
1875 my wool brought ..l.s.-. 2f9 35
" thirty ole mutton sheep l57.S5
1876 my wool bought ....... 26TI0
I" lambs and yearlIgs for mutton 3o262
1877 tity-fye lambs Tor mutton
wool ly775
To,al wool and mutton 49,. 50. 2s3s3
| have on hand 10 day 1872 high grade
breeding ewes, worth IS each IS l,O10 20
'rhrtyone culled ewes worth 50 each l5oOO
Sixty four yearlins ewes, high
grade, worth IS each. ........ 5l2 %
Six yearling bn k, worth 50 each 5000
Three two and three-year old bucks
worth $40 each ........... 3OOO
One hundred AMI thirty young
lambs, wo:th, N May, 81 50 each 525 oO
Total $L3S5.s5
During that time Ihaye bought ten
bucks ait SIS each. ..s......... lou w
Leaving grand total in twelve years
with the WOOL for this We ar 30 be adj
ded. of. S3,723.S3
For three years | continued 10
use the original buck that |
bought with the ewes; the fourth
gear ! used a Southdown buck;
since then | have used Cotswolds
until 1877, when bred one third
of my ewes TO Shropshire bucks.
and expect hereafter to use Shrop
shires exclusively, at least for
several years.
Ny fl) k has subsisted almost
entirely winter and summer Oh
grass; occasionally, when snow
was on the ground, they were fed
sheaf oats. Last winter, one
year ago, they were fed on hay
aud corn one month during the
deep snow. During the whole of
this period we have used lamb aud
mutton on our table freely, win
ter and summer, of which no &C
count is taken in the above state.
ment During two seasons ] los'
twenty-five lambs each year from
mat eDtion by not having boy tc
follow the n3ck during lambine
season. Two years ago | lost
thirty buck lambs by disease after
weaving time. With proper at.
tention and gooi grass there is nc
telling what numbero Of sheep could
be raised iu ten years from TWEEN
ty five ewes to commence with.
Il also have small flock Of En-
glish ShropshiredJwns, that are
very large and fine; they are not
included in Tie above statement
La regard TO Tennessee as a sheep
country, it requirs too much cap
ital to raise sheep on a large scale
on land worth fifty dollars per
acre. Ny idea has always been
to buy two hundred acres-oi land
in the coves at the foot of Cumber-
land mountain, good, fat land
worth about twenty dollars per
acre, put it all down in herds
grass, (red top. and clover, NOW it
all for hay, keep your hocks on
the mountains from May until
November, then bring them
down to the cove farm to winter
on the hay saved during the sum
mer, the hay to be fed from N "
able racks on the meadows, by
which means the land will soon
be made to yield at least two tons
Of hay per acre. lie my frequent
trips on the mountains during the
last three years, have noticed
thatthe sheep there do we'll during
the summer and tall months, but
they must be fed during the win
ter. This, in my opinion, is he
only way tina: large aocks OF
sheep can be handled in Tennes
see with great profit by men of
moderate capital. | think that
all that is necessary to prove this
is for some young man with mod
crate means and great deal of
and industry to give it
fair trial with one or two hun
dred ewes aud increase his flock
in proportion as he provides win
ter forage. If this plan should
be adopted Tennessee would soon
have her millions Of sheep win,
tering on either side Of the Cum
barland mountains, and that por-
ton OF our State now considered |
valueless except for coal and iron
will be the garden spot of the
State. BE. C.
Beech Grove, March 10, 1878.
Ii you want to have buck wheat |
,akes al moments warning, at