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purpose of breeding up a flock surcharged with yolk, 

 and ho wants one whoso weight of fleece ho can boast 

 of and perhaps publish, for ho has some eye on be- 

 coming a ram seller himself by-and-by, lie haft 

 learned that these highly yolky rams greatly increase 

 the weight of fleece when bred with a dry-wooled 

 flock, and lie strives therefore to make his flock as 

 yolky an possible. Ho haw not learned that hoyond a 

 c<yrtain point thin wotirce of increae<l weight prevent* 

 a further and Htill attainable irieneMe ot weight, 



II<5re, too, the rnaniifa/ittirer i re^pormihle, for the 

 H/'irne ineanM which would <jorrw/t illegitimate wool- 

 growing would correc/t illegitimate breeding, 



Whence ariw;H thin want of diw,ri mi nation in prices 

 on the part of our manufacturer* this strange abne- 

 gation of their own real intcrentn 2 We have no mon 

 honorable or intelligent clans of business men, I 

 believe none nee more clearly or deplore so deeply the 

 present course of things. Jt is the result of a system 

 almost forced on them by circumstance, arid from 

 which it is not easy to escape. Our farmer* do not 

 and will not send their wools unsold to market. The 

 d6p6t Hystcm was tried and failed, Americans choose 

 to do their own bargaining. There is but now and 

 then a locality where there is wool enough to pay 

 for sending an experienced agent to it, and to each 

 scattering lot of wool within it ; arid the same agent 

 could not traverse a large region of country before the 

 dip of the year would be picked over and the most 

 desirable lots bought in by other purchasers. Ac- 

 cordingly, to get an even chance to buy from first hold- 

 en, an establishment which works up great quanti- 

 ties of wool must have an army of agents promptly 



