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storj of tliG great benefit ami possible success of the flock on the 

 farm. Then repeat and repeat the truths, until the ones who 

 should know, cannot help knowing the good which may be 

 obtained with such comparative ease, and with so small an outlay. 

 This is an age of advertising. Our agricultural departments 

 must bo hold responsible for any lack on their part to spread 

 truths of which they are cogiiizant, truths which, if made widely 

 and freely known, cannot fail in benefiting the country at large. 



Having such indisputable facts from which to reason there is 

 no need for delay in putting forth all possible legitimate efforts 

 in compelling the farming jjublic to give due consideration to an 

 industry which is certain to have a beneficial and comforting 

 bearing on their personal and financial welfare. 



That compelling, which will surely develop the business, can 

 be done somewhat in the manner of successful departmental 

 stores. They advertise freely. We have had it proven to us 

 without doubt, that the best of quality can be produced in New 

 York State. We have the consumers who are prepared to use 

 more than we are now producing, and that at a highly profitable 

 price to the breeders. The endeavor then should be, and must be, 

 to enlist the energies of our agriculturists to find a place on prac- 

 tically every farm for a profitable flock of sheep. 



At international and state exhibitions, sheep and lambs, both 

 pure breds and grades from New York State, have been awarded 

 high lidiHirs. The past month at Chicago, a superior bunch of 

 grade inai'kct lambs were easy winners in their class, while an 

 exhibit of Shropshire lambs from your state also, captured the 

 best of premiums offered in their section. That proves beyond 

 doubt, that right here you have the combination necessary for 

 the production of the best. 



During forty years it has been my lot to be closely in touch 

 with the growing, finishing and marketing of cattle, sheep and 

 swine, — feeding all the soil's production on the farm. While the 

 practice has l)een found most satisfactory as a whole, yet it was 

 the sheep department which proved to be the steady producer of 

 profit directly and indirectly. 



To all who are entering their life's work on the farm, my sug- 

 gestion would be, keep at least a small flock of sheep as a part of 



