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that his employes and labourers must be intelhgent, trust- 

 worthy, and orderly ; and, finally, that he must be rigid 

 in the exaction of the most systematic management. 



The man who is not prepared to meet all these require- 

 ments had better leave high-caste breeding alone. On the 

 other hand, he who will fulfil its requirements, and 

 breed from the best blood, will succeed to his own satis- 

 faction, and prove a great benefactor to his country. 



A great expense and much thoughtfiil care is neces- 

 sarily entailed in the production of superior animals ; 

 and there will naturally arise a fear that in this country, 

 where the general habit is to go in for lo barato (the 

 cheap), adequate prices might not be obtained. But, it 

 may be taken for granted, that there are many among 

 the wealthy and inteUigent sheep-farmers sufficiently alive 

 to their own interests as to be ready and willing to pay a 

 good price for superior stock. Indeed, we often see in 

 the auction sales of imported sheep (in the absence of 

 sufficient thoroughly good home-bred stock) animals of 

 questionable blood, inferior size, and in every respect ill- 

 calculated to benefit our flocks in any appreciable degree, 

 sold at prices far above their intrinsic value for the 

 purposes for which they were destined. 



Our climate is admirably adapted to the production of 

 the liighest class sheep ; and I know that results have 

 been obtained by one or two, under proper management, 

 which leave little or nothing to be desired ; and that there 

 are rams bred in the country which far exceed anything 

 that is imported. I see no reason why, in a few years, 

 we should not have a breed of sheep extensively estab- 

 lished in the country, yielding a product that may com- 

 pare and compete in genei-al usefulness with anything 

 that is produced in other countries. I trust that tlie day 

 is not far distant when a flock of sheep which yields less 



