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memoir of Mr. Grove — "from these flocks have been disseminated 

 an improved fineness of wool staple over a large extent of country ; 

 while, by exhibiting an example of scientific and systematic sheep 

 husbandry, they have served to improve our farmers in raising, feed- 

 ing and protecting this valuable animal, as well as in putting the 

 wool in the best possible condition for the market. But though Mr. 

 Grove was most distinguished for his knowledge of sheep husbandry, 

 and had become, in this department, one of the leading minds, if not 

 the most prominent one of our whole country on that subject, yet he 

 did not confine his attention exclusively to this part of the science of 

 agriculture, but cultivated, in the most extensive sense of the word, 

 the whole subject of husbandry. He was indeed a scientific agricul- 

 turist. He was no visionary speculator, but a plain, intelligent, prac- 

 tical farmer, who so applied the improvements of science as to econo- 

 mise the cost of producing, while the soil should be gaining instead 

 of losing by the process- ' The greatest product with the least out- 

 lay, and an improving soil,' constituted the perfection of agriculture, 

 in his estimation. He was one of the earliest, as he was one of the 

 most eflScient, members of the State Agricultural Society , which now 

 mourns his sudden death in the flower of manhood." 



