1Y2 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



The examples of France, Germany, and England 

 all show that vastly higher priced lands than any in 

 New York must carry sheep to be made profitable ; 

 and ki the two first-named countries the wool-pro- 

 ducing sheep is preferred to the mutton sheep though 

 the growers are exposed to the competition of the far 

 cheaper wool-producing lands of Southern Russia 

 and Hungary, near by, and of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 South America, and Australia, farther off. 



. I wish to express my own thanks, and the 

 thanks of the Society for which I have prepared this 

 paper, to the various breeders, wool-growers, manu- 

 facturers, wool-merchants, and brokers, officers of the 

 Society, and other persons who have contributed 

 statements and facts for it. * These thanks are, in a 

 special manner, due to George Liverinore, Esq., of 

 Boston, for his indefatigable labors in my behalf. 



