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than Gibs, to 71bs. of wool per head, will be a rare ex- 

 ception ; and I likewise feel assured that the day is close 

 at hand when there will be more than one flock of high- 

 caste breeding ewes averaging lOlbs. to 121bs. of wool 

 each per fleece, and rams bred from them yielding 181bs. 

 to 221bs. of wool each. 



vn. 



While individuals contribute to the general good by 

 their intelligent management, and well-directed employ- 

 ment of capital, in the improvement of stock, they are 

 entitled to something like systematic protection ; a pro- 

 tection not only direct as regards the safe possession of 

 their property, but considerate and fostering as being the 

 depositaries of the Porvenir of the country. 



Such protection should be extended by the authorities 

 of all grades, and by the population at large. The good 

 sense and correct feeling of neighbours cannot always be 

 counted on, whether from incapacity to understand the 

 good that is growing up at their side, or from less ex- 

 cusable causes. In such case, the paternal care of the 

 authorities should ever be ready to protect individual 

 rights and the good work in which the breeders are 

 engaged. 



The individual loss and the national loss accruing from 

 any direct violation of the rights of property, or indirect 

 violation of the same, by which the labour of years might 

 be sacrificed, can hardly be over-estimated. The direct 

 loss, by the taking away under any pretext whatever, or 

 by theft ; the indirect loss, through the contamination of 

 the flocks ; the contamination of the blood, by means 

 of the mixture of inferior stock, so frequent when so 



