402 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



various breeds; that is, the sheep that is to eat the grass of the common farmer 

 and fill our butcher's stall Avith mutton and furnish the wool that clotheB the mill- 

 ions, and in this coming sheep we shall find a good per cent, of Merino blood, let 

 the remainder be what it may. We find no sheep that leaves its impress on its 

 offspring as a grade stronger than the Merino. Now let every sheep raiser study 

 well what the character of the coming sheep should be, then let him breed so as to 

 produce that type of sheep which will give the largest profit for the smallest outlay, 

 and as the object of this paper was not to laud the Merino above other sheep, but 

 to point out some of the characteristics of the Merino, then let him who dislikes 

 the Merino follow the course that thought and intelligence may suggest. 



