Yet the total sales for the season from this small plot, less than one thirty-second of an acre, was $86.78 at the rate of the surprising sum of $2780 per acre, and could easily have been raised to the rate of $4,000, and that without the use of any glass whatever, Truly the possibilities of the soil are unknown."
They were culturally incapable of making a formal calendar and could have no possible use for one. Either the calendar did not originate in Egypt, or it was introduced in 2780 B.C., when again the heliacal rising Sothis fell on the first of Thoth. At this time the Osiris story was dominant, in the religion.
INCOME. By 2780 fleeces, at 2 1/4 lbs. 6255lbs. wool at 1s. 6d. 469 2 6 EXPENDITURE. To 2 Shepherds at 30 pounds 60 0 0 To 2 Ditto 25 25 0 0 To 3 Ditto 20 60 0 0 To 2 Watchman 20 40 0 0 To Hurdles &c. 10 0 0 195 0 0 To 12 Rams at 10 pounds 120 0 0 315 0 0 154 2 6
Lambs. 1 2-yr. 296 133 154 562 Deaths 6 Incr.266 2 4-yr. 325 150 155 625 2 300 3 5-yr. 326 160 646 320 4 2-yr. 302 27 329 5 1-yr. 309 309 886 6 1-yr. 309 309 3 Rams died 2780 12 ditto purchased Flocks.|Breeding|Maiden|Wethers.|Rams.| Lambs. |Total.| Remarks. | Ewes. | Ewes.| |Male. Female.| No.