It's good for mutton, for wool, and for rearing lambs.

There's a great demand for mutton nowadays, all through our eastern cities.

People want more and more of it.

And it has to be tender, and juicy, and finely flavored, so a person has to be particular about the feed the sheep get." "Don't you hate to have these creatures killed that you have raised and tended so carefully ?" said Miss Laura with a little shudder.
"I do," said her uncle; "but never an animal goes off my place that I don't know just how it's going to be put to death.

None of your sending sheep to market with their legs tied together and jammed in a cart, and sweating and suffering for me.