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great national product can long depend on foreign coun- 

 tries for its means of reproduction. The best and most 

 suitable blood that the world can produce should be 

 sought out and introduced into a country proposing to 

 elevate itself in the production of an inexhaustible source 

 of wealth ; and with this ' blood ' — this breeding stock — 

 enterprising and intelligent men must work, to create for 

 their country an equal, or superior race, to disseminate, to 

 percolate, as it were, through the whole land. In this 

 way have all nations, by means of crossing their own 

 breeds, or improving and acclimatising those of others, 

 created for themselves breeds suited to the chmate, and 

 possessing, each in its way, special quahties and value. 



In nations possessing the highest degree of civiHsation, 

 many individuals have earned for themselves an ever- 

 enduring fame by their labours in this field ; and crowned 

 heads have wrought in the same field with enthusiasm 

 and constancy, achieving great results ; and this too, in 

 many instances, from very small beginnings acquired with 

 difliculty : sometimes by national treaty, at great cost, 

 and even by smuggling. 



For Buenos Ayres, ' high-caste ' breeding establishments 

 for sheep are a desideratum. To this branch it is essential 

 that men of special aptitudes should dedicate themselves, 

 and work with the very best materials, regardless "of cost. 

 Men of considerable intelligence and good knowledge of 

 the subject, great powers of observation, concentration of 

 will, patience of detail, and enthusiasm in the pursuit, can 

 alone hope to obtain marked success. 



Perfection in the vegetable and animal kingdoms is 

 obtained by skilful cultivation, by the judicious application 

 of natural laws in the treatment, the laws of nutrition, 

 thermal laws, the principles of selection, and climatic 

 influences. 



Everything that is superior in class, or quality, is essen- 



