Does Sheep Breeding Pay

4. Saline correspondent wïitee the Detroit Evening News as follows: ■Arthur A. Wood, of this place, in company with Henry Burns, of Port Worth, Texas, lias undertaken a business enterprise which not only requiros an unliniited amouut oí nerve as well as capital, but coustitutes a notable departurc in the live stock iudustry of this state. Tlie enterprise reierred to is the exportation of thoroughbred sheep, raised iu Michigan, to Australia. They have just shipped 60 rams via the steamsliip England, (rom New York, which were sclected (rom some of the leading flocks in this st-ate, in Washtenaw, Jackson, L,enawee, Hillsdale, Shiawassee, Calhoun, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties. This is the first direct' exportation to Australia from Michigan in which a Michigan man, has been financially interested. Michigan sheep have been sent to Australian market before now and sold'to good advantage, but they were selected by an Australian syndicate. Tha present 'lot has cost Wood & Burns froin $25 to $150 per head, and before they are ready for the July and August sales at Melbourne will have cost them aU average of $100 per hcad for transportaron and other expenses. In consequence of the Australian law prohibiting the importation of shcep from America, it is necessary to ship them first to London, Eng., where they are quarantined for 10 days, when they are entitled to register as English sheep, after which they will be shipped to Australia i nd there quarantined for 90 daya more, during which 'time they are subjeeted to two dippings, which consists of dousing each sheep in a vat containiiiíí a decoction o f tobáceo and other substances supposed to kill the parasites believed by Australiana to abound in all foreign bred sheep. Mr. Wood does not expect to land all the rams in Australia, previous adventures of this description proving that the crossing oí the English channel and the dipping procesa are rather severe on the constitutions of American, sheep. He estimates his total outlay before reaching the market at fully $10,000. In Australia, they figure, on reeeiving fromi $200 to $3,000 per hcad for the rams. Tliis is thought to be a íair estímate, as aeveral of the sheep purchased in Michigan last year by au Australian at from $75 to $125, sold for upwards of $3,000 each at the aruiual Australian sheep show, last July. Michigan merino rams are in great demand by Australiano, as being the best procurable witb. whieh to iinprove tte, wool of the native sheep. The outcome) of the ncw venture will be watched. with considerable interest by a flarge number of Michigan breeders. 'Mr. Wood is still a young man, but he has already cleared over $50,000 from sheep-breeding, and has the the best flock of merinos in the state.