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flocks till they approach in excellence the quality of 

 the flocks of New Zealand and Argentina. The 

 writer once in Deptford Market, where the live cat- 

 tle and sheep sent to London from foreign ports 

 are slaughtered, was shocked to see how much better 

 were the strangers ' sheep than those of his brethren. 

 Needless to say that the good sheep brought much 

 the better prices. 



To thus upbuild our range flocks needs a steady 

 inflow of the best rams, mainly of Eambouillet and 



AN ILLINOIS FEEDING AND SHIPPING YARD. 



the larger, smoother Delaine type, and the crossing 

 of their produce with rams of Lincoln, Cotswold and 

 Leicester blood. 



Such cross-breeding needs, to be a success, great 

 study and attention, and of course with finer ani- 

 mals comes always need for better feed and care, 

 for provision of forage for winter and cessation of 

 long and fruitless journeyings. These things will 

 come ; the great plains and grassy mesas and green 

 forested mountains will soon be covered with flocks 



