The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18
MORE MUTTON SHOULD BE EATEN
THE REASON.

| THE REASON.
A leading butcher in suburban city
| informs me that he sold but one sheep
during the entire Summer: in fact, he
sold portion of that. After keeping
| it in his lce-box more than a month, he
took it home and ate it in his own fam
lily. Notwithstanding the length of
time he had it on hand, it was sweet
and good, proving that mutton will
keep as well as, if not better, than any
other meat. During this time he sold
thousands Of pounds of beef which had
been brought on the cars hundreds of
miles. In the Autumn he sold hun
dreds of pounds of pork. To us there
seems to be a want of wisdom in all
j this. His patrons refused to eat the
cleanest, healthiest and most easily di-
gested meat in the world and without
thought apparently or consideration
! followed fashion, or habit and ate beef
more Or less feverish and unhealthy,
not knowing or caring where it came
from, and pork which might have been
reared in filth, and might be reeking
with disease. The farmers would be
! glad % furnish mutton in abundance,
ii there Wa} only Il demand.
1t seems to be Il universal practice
with Americans to dislike mutton, or
at least, to eat scarcely any meat ex-
cept beef and pork. They Will pay
twice as much for beef as mutton can
be bought for. Chops always sell high,
because every one wants them and no.
body wants the rest of the carcass.
Butchers say that they must sell one
| third of the sheep for enough to pay
for the whole, as all the rest has to be
sold below cost. Americans seem to be
totally unused to mutton in any form
as corned or sailed meat. There is no
better meat than corned mutton. 1t
is excellent for soups and stews, or to
boil. The hams may be corned and
then boiled and eaten cold for any meal.
There is no other meat which the
farmer can more economically use
while at the same time supplying his
table with nutritious and wholesome
food, as mutton will keep fresh longer
than any other meat and may be safe
| ly cured in hot weather. "A fat sheep
will go long way at the farmers ta-
bic and make twice as many meals as
it's cash value invested in beef The
beef must be purchased at retail, while
the farmer could supply himself with
more wholesome mutton at just what
| it cost him to raise it, A neighbor or
two. would share the carcass with him
and in turn he could do the same with
them; this would be an exchange
which would benefit both. A small
| flock of sheep is the most profitable in
vestment any farmer in the old States
can make. No stock will bring in so
much money in comparison with their
cost and, if he will try it, no stock will
help him so well in providing a supply
| of wholesome food.
Sheep will Winter we'll on straw
supplemented with plenty of turnips.
These are an easy crop to raise and
may be put in any time before the mid
die of August. This is the best way
to work the straw into manure, far bet
ter than to throw it into the yard
where it cannot be converted into
manure at all to be compared in rich
ness to what it would be if fed to sheep
and mixed with their droppings. The
straw thrown into yard, makes great
deal of bulk to handle, with little val
ue. The sooner American farmers be-
gin to raise roots and turnips for
sheep, the sooner will they begin to
swell the income of the farm by the
direct return of more meat made to
sell and more manure to make more
and better crcps.-Cor. Rural Ney
Yorker.