Excerpt from The Southern Planter and Farmer, Vol. 2: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts; July, 1868 Sheep of this description are annually driven in great numbers from the Western States to the vicinity of New York - those not fat enough for butchering, being bought by farmers to feed for market. Many farmers keep the ewes over winter, raising a drop of early lambs from them, and fattening them (the ewes) the ensuing summer and fall on good pasturage, with a little grain after grass is injured by frost. They thus usually sell for abouttwice the first cost, or say $5 a head. In this way the grazier obtains a lamb, a fleece and the manure, in addition to doubling his original Outlay - or upwards of $10 for an expenditure of From this is to be deducted merely expense of keep. On Virginia lands this would leave up wards of $5 net profit a head, after deducting all expenses. At the present prices of Western sheep, the profits would be greater. From what I have learned of those prices, my impression is that inlambed, wintered ewes could have been bought in the West, before yeaning, with their fleeces on, 'for per head; and the dropped lambs would not probably yet add much to their price. The panic among sheep holders is, beginning to subside, but unless there is a decided change, it is probable that immediately after shearing, good strong ewes with lambs at their sides can be bought for about $2 a pair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.