70 STATES OF THE RIVER PLATE. 



The proprietors of these establishments will not need 

 me to apologise for this suggestion as indicating a higher 

 sphere of action on a field worthy of their labours, viz. 

 the reproduction of the German Merino blood under a 

 special and more generally useful type by the influence 

 of selection, perhaps, a judicious cross and treatment, in 

 all respects suited to our climate, as has been done by the 

 gentleman above referred to, with the French Imperial 

 Merino, and as has been done by the high-class Australian 

 breeders. 



We have only to refer to the opinion of the high 

 Spanish authority I have quoted in the foregoing paper, 

 and the present recently adopted practice of the North 

 German Cabanas to guide us to the direction in which 

 modification should be sought, i. e. a general usefulness 

 and consequent profitable return, length, strength, and 

 abundance of wool, and large size in the animal, with 

 good fattening properties. 



