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Unfortunately, perhaps some of those present may think, 

 the sheep industry of the State is still small, and has been 

 diminishing in recent years. As to the figures, I haven't 

 them at present, but certain it is that the sheep industry 

 of the State is not a large industry. We don't raise much 

 wool. And yet Massachusetts mills lead in the manufacture 

 of wool products. She manufactures one-fourth of ^ all the 

 woollen goods manufactured in the country. She manufac- 

 tures one-third of all the worsted goods manufactured in 

 America. Our forests, our spruce forests on the hills, 

 largely disappeared many years ago ; but the spruce forests 

 of Maine and Canada are being hauled up to our mills, and 

 we are producing one-fifth of all the products of the paper 

 mills in the country. We lead the list in the manufacture 

 of fine papers. We do not grow, and so far as I know, we 

 never have grown, a pound of cotton within our territory, 

 we are many hundreds of miles from the cotton fields ; and 

 yet the people of Massachusetts have 41 per cent of the 

 spindles and 39.8 per cent of the looms that are engaged in 

 the cotton manufacture in this country, bringing our raw 

 material into the State. We easily stand far ahead in cotton 

 manufacture. We manufacture over one-third of all the 

 cotton goods manufactured in the country. We have no 

 broad prairies upon which to feed herds of cattle, and yet 

 the meat products manufactured in Massachusetts go all 

 over the world. 



I sat last night beside a gentleman who is engaged in the 

 tanning business. He told me that he had a tannery in Penn- 

 sylvania and one in Massachusetts. The company were in- 

 creasing their business in Massachusetts and diminishing 

 in Pennsylvania, although a few years ago they thought, 

 because the raw material was down there, the tanneries 

 would gradually go there. But he thought that the condi- 

 tions for manufacture were better in this State, as a matter 

 of fact ; and we have the largest tanneries, and the tanneries 

 having the largest output of any tanneries in the world to- 

 day are in this State. 



Although no herds of cattle are actually raised in Massa- 

 chusetts, yet this State not only leads in the manufacture 



