At shearing time, which generally occurs about the end of April or the Ist of May, the sheep are brought in, and the ccst I of shearing is about 12s per 100, the men being found in food, and shearing from 60 to SO sheep a day, according to the different class of sheep ; but shearing in New Mexico is a rough business, despite the great num ber of sbeep depasturing therein, for the men as yet caunot be induced to take any interest in their work, choosing rather to race for who can get through the most, and butcher ing the sheep accordingly, Even in this, however, they have made a march, for when, five years ago, I came to Colorado I saw some men cutting the wool off a flock of sheep with butchers' knives, and then it was considered in that part the correct thing so to do. The price of sheep, genuine Mexicans, is, lor the ewes, 2dols. — say Ss 4d; for wethers, (is 4d. For improved herds it is impossible to give quotations, they being valued according to their grade, and not very often in the mai ket. " That sheep-farming pays —- and pays largely—even before, the sheep are improved, can easily be seen by travelling through New Mexico, where all the rich men, except the storekeepers, are sheepim n. That it pays with improved breeds can be still more easily proved by tbe fact that the sheep are healthy, vrolific, and cost nothing for their keep. The last lambing throughout the territory yielded an iucrease of more than SO per cent., and as our own tl->ck—the only one I can be sure of for an instance—cut on the average 51b of wool per head, and this wool realised 2Sc. per lb—say 14d—after paying all expenses, that makes the average os lOd a head in English money, saying nothing of the increase in extra _ quality of the sheep." Strasobrs paying a -isit io uuuemn are often at a ' loss to know which is the .best establishment to visit for the purchase of drapery and clothing. Herbert, Haynes, and Co. offer special advantages to the public \ that can be met with nowhere else in tiie city. 