 | 1868 - 766 էջ
...weight will fetch from two dollars and fifty cents to three dollar«, whereas, at five cents per pound, the very top price for mutton, the same sheep would only fetch two dollars and fifty cents. ****»»»# Pigs are numerous, being easily raised. They are of various sorts, but... | |
 | Illinois - 1869 - 1130 էջ
...weight will fetch from two dollars and fifty cents to three dollars, whereas, at five cents per pound, the very top price for mutton, the same sheep would only fetch two dollars and fifty cents. * * * * * » i • * Pigs are numerous, being easily raised. They are of various sorts,... | |
 | Illinois - 1869 - 1084 էջ
...weight will fetch from two dollars and fifty cents to three dollars, whereas, at fiv» cents per pound, the very top price for mutton, the same sheep would only fetch two dollars and fifty centi. »»»**»** Pigs are numerous, being easily raised. Tb«y are of various sorts, but... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 386 էջ
...regard to its fineness, which is the reason why sheep are higher than mutton, as a sheep of fifty lbs. weight will fetch from two dollars fifty cents to...sells high, ten cents a lb., twice the price of meat. various sorts; but many of them [185] are of a sandy colour, and some with wattles; that is, a piece... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 376 էջ
...regard to its fineness, which is the reason why sheep are higher than mutton, as a sheep of fifty lbs. weight will fetch from two dollars fifty cents to...sells high, ten cents a lb., twice the price of meat. various sorts; but many of them [185] are of a sandy colour, and some with wattles; that is, a piece... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 376 էջ
...regard to its fineness, which is the reason why sheep are higher than mutton, as a sheep of fifty lbs. weight will fetch from two dollars fifty cents to...sells high, ten cents a lb., twice the price of meat. various sorts; but many of them [185] are of a sandy colour, and some with wattles; that is, a piece... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 372 էջ
...these things. But I have heard a few of them say they like mutton; but even if fond of it, they wfll never purchase it, for fear of the scoffs of their...sells high, ten cents a lb., twice the price of meat. various sorts; but many of them [185] are of a sandy colour, and some with wattles; that is, a piece... | |
 | 353 էջ
...as many of them have never tasted these things. But I have heard a few of them say they like mutton; but even if fond of it, they will never purchase it,...sells high, ten cents a lb., twice the price of meat. various sorts; but many of them [185] are of a sandy colour, and some with wattles; that is, a piece... | |
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Ibs. weight will fetch from two dollars fifty cents to three dollars; whereas, at five cents per lb., the very top price for mutton, the same sheep would only fetch two dollars fifty cents. Very few sheep are therefore killed here, as the butcher cannot... 