The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-06-13
CROP
AMOUNTS TO OVR
HUNDRED THOUSAND
NET PROFITS TO TIE FARMERS
WILL BE ONE-THiRD OF
THAT SUM.
GREAT SEASON FOR INDUSTRY
Not in Years Has the Quality Been
So Fine Stories" of Big Profits
Are Numerous-None Fed During
the Winter Months

since The UISt OF the year Maury
county has shipped to the markets
more than l5,C00 lambs. This esti.
mate is made by M. E. Allen, one OF
the largest buy ers and most conserva-
tive dealers in the county. Mr.. al.
len and these associated with him
have bought more than 10000 head
and the other dealers have acquired
az least half this number.
! There has not been in years SO
profits bic season for the owners of
sheep. They have all made money,
and considering the amounts invested
they have made big money. At Sc
per lamb, which is generally consid-
cred a fair average price, the lamb
crop of the county this spring has
! rought the farmers 100000 When
there is added to this the amounts
received in February and March and
April from the shipments of fall
lambs the total will 60 to more than
100000.
1t Is altogether safe to say that of
the above 100000 the actual profits
ito the farmers who had the sheep
! and lambs will amount to not less
than onet'hird. in some instances
farmers have doubled their money
within less than a year. In fact
there are 's.ories" galore, to use
the newspaper term, of big money
made by farn,ers on their lambs. The
crop representing an income of over
100000 that has gone from the coun,
ty this year, will return greater
profit to the farmers than any other
investment that they will make dur
ing the year 1918. For the amount of
the investment the farmers of Maui
ry county are gcing to get more real
profit and mo regenuine benefit from
their sheep this year than they will
receive from any other industry.
For it must be remembered that
the investment, in sheep is compare
lively small For example he lambs
have averaged Sc each. They came
from ewes thai do not represent an
average investment Of more than 81
each. The wool has averaged not
far from 81 Ter head Illustrating
the profits made NJ E. Allen stated
this morning that about three months
ago he purchased 200 ewes with their
lambs. The ether day he sold the
lambs and ninety-five of the ewes,
saving for stock purposes los of the
best of the flock From his sales he
received $102 more than the cost of
the entire Hook. Add to this the 105
ewes left at S. each shows a net prof
it on the investment of more than
5000.
James H. Kannon last fall purchas-
ed 100 ewes at So each. The other
day he sold the ewes and their lambs
at So each he did not feed them one
grain Of corn o. pound of hay. In
addition ne Received fifty. cents
head for the wool, which was rery
bury.
These are just samples. Another
p ri hir-fx, Eyo IL
eraged IS 2-3 uounds for which he re-
ceived $643 each and in addition he
got over g. per head for the wool.
The great secret OF the success of
the sheep industry in this county is
the fact that they had pasture all the
year. In Ordinary winters that is lit |
tie trouble. They sowed rye and
wheat and crimson clover. This car
ried the lambs during the winter and
then in the spring they turned them |
on clover. The clover crop has been
good this spring and the |
lambs have mover been so fat. Very |
few farmers in the county fed their |
sheep or lambs all during the winter. |
When there is sdded to the farms the |
value of the manure and the cover |
crops the profits from sheep will be |
shown to be much larger than the |
mere figures indicate.
Probably the best record made on |
a small flock was that of former Rep |
W. T. Galloway, of Glen
dale. Mr.. Galloway has just twelve
ewes. He sold twenty-four lambs
from these ewes at an average of |
$3.50 each, making the returns from
the twelve ewes SLIGO each. In ad |
1ition he sold about 81 worth of wool |
from each eve This brings the to.
tai returns to more than $3.50 per
head or about two and one half times
the value of The ordinary eve