The Baltimore County Union

Sheep Raising.—Can any one grow wool, mutton, lambs, meat, hides and tallow, with a living profit, in a region where there is no cheap land on which to grow them—where every acre costs heavily, and then requires heavy manuring before it will produce much? Had we heard this question one year ago, we should have thought the querist very inexperienced. We now take a somewhat different view; and to-day are not quite sure but that young men, with small means but greater energy, might prove themselves to be wise by undertaking this very business within a few miles of Boston or New York. No one, however, should undertake such an enterprise single-handed and with slender means, however industrious, resolute, and sound in judgment he might be. But two or three young men, of just the right stamp, might do comfortably well the first year and make money the second, by forming a partnership. In the case of two partners, let one turn butcher and the other a market gardener, and let there serve the adjacent population to meats and vegetables. The offal of the butcher would enrich the soil of the gardener—so the highest productiveness; and the gentlemanly deportment of each would bring custom to both. The garden would soon become so rich that one acre would be as good as two or three were at first. In some cases three partners, or at least an efficient assistant, working as any emergency might require, would be found both useful and profitable.