Hamilton County OhArchives News.....About Sheep March 24 1880

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Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer

About Sheep
Hamilton Co., Ohio, February, 1880.
The editor suggests that the farmers send in their experience in regard to their
profits in raising diferent kinds of grain and stock.
 I find in my farm record what we did with a small lot of sheep in the year
1876.  In the spring, after shearing-time, we bought a lot of fourteen (having
just sold one flock).  The fourteen sheep cost us $40, being low at that time of
the year.  The next May we sold nine buck lambs to the butcher at $3 25 per
head, making $29 25.  In June, we sold the wool clipped from them, seventy-five
pounds, at twenty-three cents per pound, making $17 25.  Besides, we had eight
fine ewe lambs left, worth $4 each, making $32.  Counting the wool, the lambs
sold, and those kept, the amount was $78 50 from the $40 invested.  We have done
very nearly as well every year since.
 In order to have your buck lambs ready for the early spring market, they should
come in January.   Thos. SHROYER.

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