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the dreadful stomach worm. Merinos are by no 

 means proof against parasites but they are far more 

 resistant than are any of the breeds of English ori- 

 gin. The place for the Merino, its great use, is not 

 so much as a producer of wool alone, as it has been 

 used in old days, but as a hardy farm sheep, pro- 

 ducing both wool and mutton. The wool of the Me- 



TWO-YEAE-OLD AMERICAN MERINO RAM. , 



rino is the finest and for many purposes easily the 

 best in the world. It should command the highest 

 price and usually does. Merino breeders in the 

 eastern states, however, must compete with pro- 

 ducers of wool in remote and semi-savage lands, 

 Australia, Argentina, Patagonia, the Falkland 

 Islands and parts of our own great West. 



