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UNIVERSITY 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH, 



THE appreciative request by which the writer of this paper 

 has been honored * has only hastened the execution of a 

 work which he has for a long time contemplated, and is but 

 a continuation of an inquiry as to our national wool resources 

 already pursued in regard to the Pacific and trans-Missouri 

 sections of the country. In preparing an article on wool- 



* WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 10, 1877. 

 JOHN L. HAYES, Esq., Secretary of the 



National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Boston, Mass. 



SIR, In the numbers of the " Bulletin," published as the organ of your 

 Association for December, 1876, and September, 1877, appear two articles 

 from your pen, entitled, " The Part of the Wool Industry in our National Econ- 

 omy/' and " Wool Production and Sheep Husbandry." 



The interest called forth in us by the perusal of these papers has been 

 deepened by the reading of the Report upon Wool and Wool Fabrics, made by 

 you as one of the group of judges in the late International Exposition, which 

 you were officially requested to prepare. 



While very much has been written upon this question, relative to the advan- 

 tages of the North, the West, and the Pacific slope, we feel that the special 

 inducements of " the South " have not been recently presented by any influ- 

 ential authority, like that you represent. 



As the objects of your Association are national in their character, we believe 

 the proposition will meet your approval, if we suggest that you prepare a paper 

 upon " Sheep Husbandry and Wool Production in the South," for publication 

 in your Journal, and also for general distribution. 



Being residents of, and therefore specially interested in, that section of the 

 country, we believe that an authoritative setting-forth of the great advantages 

 it presents for this industry, by your Association, will give a great impulse to 



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