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Further quotations are needless. These facts and principles 

 are patent, and have been moving the upper strata for years. 

 What now is needed, is to have the less-ons and the interest 

 "strike in," as a neighboring journal aptly expresses itself, and 

 affect the substrata. 



It may not be amiss to append a half dozen axioms. 



1st. To fully insure the production of " like from like," the 

 desired quality should be inherited, not accidental. 



2d. A sire and dam each inheriting the same defects or 

 excellences will transmit them to their progeny. 



3d. The defects in one parent may be remedied by opposite 

 qualities in the other. 



4th. "Blood" is of more consequence in the sire than in 

 the dam. 



5th. " Blood stock," being more permanently established, 

 has a greater controlling influence than mixed or impure 

 blood. 



6th. To secure the perfect development of the foal, the dam 

 should be larger than the sire. 



Hiram Barrus, Chairman. 



HEEP. 



WORCESTER. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The profit of sheep is not the principal, but one of the 

 principal beauties of sheep husbandry. Eight large, or ten 

 smaller sheep are said to be equal in keeping to one cow. The 

 average income of a lot of ten good cows, is about $40 each, 

 $400 ; when well kept both summer and winter, saying nothing 

 about accidents or bad luck. The average income of eighty 

 sheep, being equal to ten cows, would be about as follows, to 

 wit : — Four pounds of wool each, 320 lbs., at 40 cents per lb., 

 $128. One hundred lambs at $4 each, $400,— total, $528; 

 then the cap^al invested, $500 for the cows at $50 each, and 



