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forming the rich, blue grass and grain into luscious mutton 

 in the shortest possible time, are those which will yield the 

 greatest profit. Long-lived animals in such localities are 

 by no means so important as when wool is the primary ob- 

 ject. The conditions are reversed upon the thin soils, and 

 in the sparsely populated portions of the State. There wool 

 should be the principal end, and mutton the incidental, for 

 it would be quite possible to keep a flock of a thousand or 

 more on a widely extended natural pasture, at less cost of 

 time, trouble, and money, than a flock of one hundred on a 

 small, but very fertile and highly improved farm. To mar- 

 ket mutton from long distances entails loss, both in quality 

 and quantity ; but no product of the farm, in proportion to 

 value, involves so little expense in transportation as wool. 

 The flockmasters' motto should be mutton for the rich valley 

 lands ; wool for the mountain districts and thin table-lands. 



