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Identifier: ohiobrookehancoc00west (find matches)
Title: Ohio, Brooke and Hancock counties
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: West Virginia Geological Survey Grimsley, George Perry, 1868- Griswold, William Tudor, 1859- Caine, Thomas A Tailby, G. W
Subjects: Geology Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: (Wheeling : Wheeling News Litho. Co.)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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most sheep were kept in Ohio and Brooke counties, wherethe Wheeling clay loam gives permanent blue grass pastures,which favor the profitable production of wool and mutton. Only fine-wooled sheep, the Delaines and Merinos, areraised. These give a good yield of wool, besides the lambs, whichare marketed in the fall and bring from $2 to $3 a head whensix months old. It is believed that the number of sheep couldbe profitably increased on the Wheeling clay loam, where protec-tion from dogs can be had. The dairy interests are confined almost exclusively to theterritory immediately surrounding the cities and villages. With-in a radius of three miles of Wheeling nearly every farm main-tains a dairy of from 10 to 50 cows, the average being 20. Littlefine-bred stock is kept. A few farmers within five miles fromthe city retail their milk daily. Others along the trolley linessend their milk to wholesale dealers in the city. Milk retails at8 cents a quart winter and summer, and at wholesale prices
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Plate XVI.—a. Down Draft Kilns at the Crescent Yard,New Cumberland, Hancock County.

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