Coit of KerpiB(l lne.woolee Sheep*
It costs per head, to keep fine-wooled sheep,
about $1 50 per annum, washing and shear
ing inoluded, provided hay is $8 per ton and
corn 75 oents per bushel, and salt $2 per
barrel. A good flock will average abont five
pounds of wool per head, and there would be
from one-third to one-fourth of the flock that
would raise lambs. One hundred sheep
would raise 500 pounds of wool, and thirty
lambs which, at the present prices, (37} ots.
for Merino wool,) would be $187 50 for the
wool, and $60 for the lambs at $2 per head,
amounting to $237 50. The total cost ot
keeping, at $1 50 per head, would be $150,
leaving a net balanoe of $97 50, or nearly $1
per head. Theee figures are oorrect for a
good Hock of sheep in Western New York at
thsjiresent time.—[Genessee Farmer.
Vital 'brl«tlanlty in Virgin!**
An aged Methodist in Knottsville, Virginia,
owned a young negro named Jack, who was
also an exemplary member of the same
church with his master. A slave trader want
ey to buy him, but his mastef was reluctant
to sell him. Finailv two neighbors (mem
bejs of the same church) tempted by a com
mission bribe of $25 (it should have been
"thirty") induced the old gentleman to sell
his young colored brother. The poor boy
was deeply grieved at this determination of
his master. They were not only members of
the same church, but of the same claas: and
i had often worshipped and prayed together in
the same class-room and at their own family
altar. But Jack quietly turned his back upon
his pleasant home, and *ent off weeping with
his new master.
