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the best flocks of pure-bred sheep in the country and more or less 

 interested in sheep all his life. 



A name that in justice should have appeared earlier in this 

 article is that of Prof. Thomas Shaw, whose pen and experiments 

 have done inestimable good for the sheep industry of this coun- 

 try and Canada. 



Among those who are doing good work in the interest of the 

 sheep industry at Canadian Experiment Stations the names of 

 Professor Day of the Guelph Agricultural College, Professor Cum- 

 mings of the Nova Scotia Experiment Station and Professor Gris- 

 dale of the Ottawa Experiment Station come to mind. 



Professor George Eommel of the Department of Agriculture 

 is deeply interested in sheep experiments and we are looking to him 

 to do some good work along that line. Professor E. L. Shaw, who 

 takes our late lamented friend, Prof. George F. Thompson's, 

 place at the Department of Agriculture, will turn his attention 

 toward work in connection with evolving a new breed of sheep to 

 meet the demands of the western range. This gentleman as 1^ 

 write (July 11, 1907) has just returned from Michigan and Ohio 

 with some of the choicest finewool rams to be used in this experi- 

 ment that money could buy. The "boys" interested in sheep in Qur 

 experiment stations are of a very intelligent and enterprising class, 

 some of whom are going through "fire and water," as it were, to 

 acquire their education, some starting as low as doing janitor ser- 

 vice to accomplish their ends. These are the boys that make 

 great men. 



It's a wonder that some of our experiment stations do not take 

 up the study of goitre in sheep and lambs. This subject offers a 

 wide open field for investigation and will make undying fame for 

 those who solve the mystery that hovers around this insidious 

 disease. 



