The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
Exporting sheen.

We clip from a late number OF the
New YORK Herald the following state
ments concerning the profits realized in
exporting sheep; In a conversation with
a business man of this city, who has
paid a great deal of attention to the sub
ieet, we CLEAN the following facts with
reference 10 the profits to be derived
from the shipment Of fat sheep from the
West to New York, for export TO Eng
land. Sheep, he says, can be driven to
Utah, New Mexico or Colorado al a
cost not to exceed fifty cents per head.
In either Of these Territories, double
deck cars, with a capacity OF 40 sheep
per car, that otherwise would return
East empty, a be had for SllO each.
Fat wethers that will dress fifty pounds
net can be bought onIthis coast for 81 per
head and slaughtered in New York for
twenty cents each. The carcass, when
dressed, can be sold for ten cents per
pound, or SIS for a sheep weighing fifty
pounds. In addition, the pelt, with six
months wool on it, brings from seventy
five to eighty cents, and the refuse tai
low about forty cents, making a total in
New York, say 1920 per head, or 1868
per car load. From this is to be de.
Quoted the cost of l40 sheep at 50, cost
of driving fifty cents, and rent OF a
Sllo, total, $3.50, which taken from
SS6S, the amount realized in New York,
it leaves the handsome sum of S4O6 per
car lead, or nearly Ito per cent. gain.
From the same gentleman we learn that
parties engaged in exporting mutton to
England are now making contracts in
Canada at eight cents per pound. That
the matter is receiving the attention of
stockraisers in other parts of this State
is evidenced by the fact that last week
$1,000 were shipped from Red Bluff.
Poultry Notes.
The comb is a true index of the health
of the fowl.
In cold weather feed more in proper
ton of the fat-producing grain.
Don't attempt too much master
n variety before. you begin with an
other.
Roup is an inflammation of the mu-
cous membranes lining the nostrils and
adjoining parts.
Fresh bones from the butcher shop
pounded fine are superior to the com-
mercial bone meal for fowls,
Plan your lighthouses so that they
shall be warm in winter, cool in summe
and sunny and airy at all times.
Fowls during melting require more
warm and more generous diet during
this time of drain upon the system,
At five or six months old the cockerels
should be separated from the pullets,
and rear each sex by themselves.
A very good plan, if one has not car
bolic acid On hand, is to mix with the
whitewash a cupful of kerosene before
using itin the fowl-house.
Selling pure-bred chickens in the fall
is becoming popular among fanciers.
This gives a semi-annual boom to the
poultry business.
Ducks and geese can be raised with.
out an abundance of water. Give them
enough of pure water to drink, and al.
low them an occasional bath.
The chicken houses must be kept
clear as circumstances will permit. The
diseases of the poultry yard are not
confined to no particular season or eli
mate.
Those who raise ducks near rivers or
treams should remember. that musk
rats, minks and turtles, and also house
rats, have a particular liking for young
ducks. -Poultry Monthly.