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long-woollecl sheep. We all know we can increase, the crops 

 in our fields by putting on manure, and we can increase the 

 weight of wool by the way we feed. I have seen the weight 

 of a fleece increased two pounds by liberal feeding. The 

 wool will not only be longer ; but the staple will be better, 

 and be worth more. Here is one man who has been feeding 

 his sheep well, and another man who has not fed his nearly 

 as well. It would be difficult for me to convince the latter 

 that his wool is not worth so much by ten cents a pound as 

 the other man's wool, and does not weigh so much by two 

 pounds to a fleece ; but such is the fact. That is the differ- 

 ence in feeding. 



We are an agricultural country, and yet we do not raise 

 nearly enough wool to supply our own factories. We are 

 sending corn abroad to pay for the wool we use. We might 

 as well raise the wool in this country, and keep our corn at 

 home, and then we should not be dependent upon the foreign 

 •market to buy so much of our corn and butter. We might 

 just as well convert our corn into wools, and save the trans- 

 portation both ways. We should want more than three times 

 the quantity of wool we have now, and more than four times 

 the number of sheep, in all probability. The same remark 

 applies to sugar. We can raise sugar from beets, and keep 

 the money at home that now goes to foreign countries for 

 the sugar we consume. 



Adjourned to two o'clock. 



Afternoon Session. 



The closing session of the Board was opened at two o'clock 

 by an address from Professor Goessmann of the Agricul- 

 tural College. 



THE RELATIVE VALUE OF SEVERAL VARIETIES OF CORN" 

 FOR FEEDING PURPOSES. 



BY C. A. GOESSMANN. 



Gentlemen, — Before entering upon a discussion of the 

 results of my chemical examination into the composition 

 and the relative feeding value of some of our more promi- 



