each member. The business part of the undertaking will present 

 more difficulty, and expert management will be required to trans- 

 port the ghi from the collecting centres to the railway and to 

 place it on the market. The details of working must be left 

 to the Registrar of Co-operative Credit Societies, who is understood 

 to be considering these suggestions. 



(la). Improvement in breeds of sheep and qoats. 

 Hitherto little action has been taken towards the improvement 

 of the breed of sheep and goats. From time to time the sheep 

 of the country have been crossed with imported strains, but 

 there has been hardly any perceptible effects on the general 

 stock. But as the officers of the Civil Veterinary Depart- 

 ment obtain more and more knowledge of their charge, further 

 efforts will no doubt be made. The recent introduction of merino 

 rams into the Kulu flocks should result in great improvement 

 in the fleece of hill sheep. In the plains much good can be 

 effected by systematic selection of good rams suited to the climate. 

 The merits of the Bikanir and Hissar sheep are already appre- 

 ciated in the districts further north, and District Boards might 

 give further encouragement to the improvement of the breed 

 by a judicious distribution of good Bikanir rams to suitable 

 persons. The Hissar sheep were themselves much improved by 

 the encouragement given to sheep breeding in the villages of 

 the old Skinner Estate. Similar action could be undertaken in 

 the case of goats. 



(*). Cattle and shtep fairs. 



The need for cattle fairs in the Ambala district, at Gujar 

 Khan in the Rawalpindi district, in the Jhelum colony, and 

 generally in the Western districts has been mentioned by district 

 officers and has already been alluded to. At present few sheep 

 fairs are held, either separately or in connection with cattle fairs. 

 But it would appear that a sheep fair at Fazilka in the Ferozepore 

 district or at Basal in the Attock district would have considerable 

 prospects of success and would be both useful to traders and 

 profitable to the District Board. * Another suitable place for a 

 sheep fair would ( be Gujar Khan, and the existing fairs at Abohar, 

 Amritsar, Hissar, Bhiwani and other places might be extended 

 so as to include sheep and goats. Prizes for sheep and goats 

 might also be included in the prize lists issued by District Boards 

 on these occasions. 



XXII. SUMMARY. 



The conclusions arrived at in the previous chapters may be 

 briefly summarized, 



