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interest. He knew no way by which this could be better 

 done than by raising such stock as will create a pride in its 

 management and care. 



The error being committed was in raising too many mules. 

 He feared that this kind of stock was commanding an undue 

 attention, and must soon result in over-production. Both 

 here and in Kentucky a great demand existed for large brood 

 mares for the purpose of raising mules, and this demand, by 

 taking from us our brood mares, would, in a short time, ma- 

 terially decrease our stock of horses. 



Sheep raising was becoming an important matter. In 

 some parts the land was too low and moist to be well adapted 

 for rearing them, but most of our State was well suited for 

 them. In the oldest States the great object seemed now to 

 be, to produce wool of the finest quality, without regard to 

 the size of the body. Hence it is that Pennsylvanians have 

 come here for the last three years to buy up our large bodied 

 common sheep for mutton. He believed our present policy 

 was to raise large sheep for slaughtering, which would be 

 profitable not only on account of the demand to which he 

 had just referred, but because the use of sheep in this way 

 would increase, as the felts, and suet were now put to more 

 advantageous uses than formerly. 



Mr. Bollman remarked that having it in view to turn his 

 entire attention to wool growing, he had made a good deal 

 of enquiry as to its profitableness and the best mode of rear- 

 ing sheep. The chief disadvantage under which our farmers 

 now labor is the impossibility of securing bucks, in sufficient 

 numbers, and of the requisite fineness of wool, to enable the 

 farmers to annually exchange bucks with each other. The 

 sheep is an animal of delicate constitution, and more than 

 any other animal is liable to deterioration. Some farmers in 

 Monroe, who had good bucks had bred in and in until their 

 flocks had become diseased. It was, he believed, a well set- 

 tled rule, that in all stock raising the parent should never 

 cross with his offspring. Now to avoid this evil, every far- 



