The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-22
Sheep and Wheat.


We are satisfied that there are no Two
branches Of grain and stock farming
that can be so probably combined as
wheat and sheep farming. In growing
wheat the ground in blowing turns up
6ew, fresh soil, giving a clean' new
seed led for the grass TO grow ON
while tho fermenting and dccaying, nc
cumulations of an old pasture or nay
field. are turned down to enrich INC
soil and give the plant a more vigorous
Growth. We find in our domestic shcep
two very admirable habits one is quiet,-
ness, the other industry. You can east
" fence them in-they do not heGu
iail-yard, like a wild colt, nor 90 they
need n vigilance committee ailer tI ',,
az Won do in the care OF the vicious
hog. After your wheat has been drawn
from the fields, turn in your sheep ana
thew will clean il as carefully ana sue
cessfully as did the cleaners IN the DAYS
Of Ruth. We find by experience mat
sheen can be well wintcred by feeding
Grain, and good, bright wheat straw
thereby returning to the Sol. mat "hich
has been taken from it
BY carefully utilizing all our PROD
ucts our farms will grow richer ana our
pockets larger. 1t is very essential that
every farmer keep few sheep; first, ~
source OF profit; second, as rcno'a.2r'
they being very destructive TO weeds
brush and such accumulatlon5 IN renee
rows and other obscure places, render
ino the farmer valuable service IN many
ways. ,.-
We have carefully noted tho growing
and marketing Of the great crops Won
and wheat We need TO gro" more
wool. because we do not produce
enough for home consumption; WINE
with wheat We have TO look TO lorclgh
markets very largely 10 make sales
Our farmers have been marketing lh'se
two farm products. The wool has been
crown without any extra expense, the
farmer and his family caring Tor lhch.
while the washing and shearhS has cosy
about five cents on each dollar received;
they took their thirty-iyo cents per
hound and went home happy. IN Inc
meantime, the wheat farmer has come Ia
market with his grain. " W Leat lus',
one dollar to-day" d" Is that ali'
yes" He gets black in the face, iol
II has rained, ] should remark that ],
has poured down in torrents; hehas had
n long, hard siege in the house ms wei
as in the field, employing u large gang
of hands at two dollars per day. IAN
has caused extra expense ana cA'r
work. He finds, after u careful e5l.
ate, that he has lett, alter dc1uc.ih
harvest expenses, marketing, e'c', Il h'
profit of about seyenty-iye cents ON ID
dollar. lie estimates that II costs amor
as much to feed n wheat crop, inclu'
ino seed, labor, manure, commerce
fertilizers. and all that goes TO make
rood wheat crop, as II does tho san
percentage Of sheep, leaving hol'
some balance on the wool side o! Il
ledger.
Tho amateur may ask what kind
sheep 10 keep. Well, if mutton Is u
object take mutton sheep OF the III
glish breeds; if wool is the object, ttI
The American Mcrino. Do not try M
breed n sheep combining wool and mu
ton. because each has a fixed type. II
coarse wool sheep have been brci i
hundreds of years ON the Downs OF J.
Gland, and arc a fixed type; while 4
fine woods were bred in Spain AS lo
ago rs the time when the MoorS
yaded that country. So IN tyns
build breed in n few crosses YOU "
makea serious failure, and the Wo
kind of a mongrcl. In 1881 The
coarse and mixed woods were bought
Bissell Junction, Ohio mt from ihir
eight to forty cents per pound, and :
in Boston, Juno /, 1882, for thirty
cents per pound. The same class
woods were only bringing twenty
cents per poundin 1852, the line We
thirty-live cents. The future onl'
for fine wool sheep is very satisiaci'
farmers are fast learning thai it lat
Grade up their nocks and some are
Producing tow ewes to make star
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