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expert in manufacturing woolen goods found a cordial wel- 

 come in England. In addition to the severest and most 

 strictly enforced laws for the protection of the wool product 

 and manufacture, the immigration of foreign experts in the 

 woolen manufacture was encouraged until at last, after cen- 

 turies of such protective culture, England monopolized the 

 Avoolen manufacturing business of the world. It is one of 

 the sad examples of unwise liberality on the part of 

 some of our statesmen that these lessons, taken from such 

 a conspicuous example of history, should be disregarded and 

 as most truly said by the ancient writer quoted on the 

 Title page ''the most profitable animal a man can have'' 

 should be sacrificed to the mistaken policy of admitting 

 free of import duty the products of countries whose trade 

 has been built up and brought to a full growth by the most 

 severely protective laws known in the history of the world. 

 Surely it would seem that we should follow this most strik- 

 ing example of the building up of trade to a condition of self- 

 support by centuries of favorable legislative protection. This 

 is a matter the American shepherd should study well for his 

 guidance. 



THE ANATOMY OF THE SHEEP. 

 None of our domestic animals can be managed success- 

 fully without an accurate knowledge of its anatomy, and of 

 the special functions of its parts. The anatomy or physical 

 structure of any animal controls its constitution, that, is to 

 say, its subjection to good or evil results in its living and 

 general management; for while this word in its full sense 

 means the formation and general disposition of any organ- 

 ized thing, in the common sense, as applied to animals, it 

 means as well the principles or general laws by which its 

 successful existence is secured; its susceptibility to good or 

 evil. by the conditions of its existence or management; its 

 ability to resist, misfortunes, and its prosperity under the 

 skillful management of its intelligent keeper. The constitu- 

 tion of the domestic sheep in this regard is especially one to 

 be well studied by the shepherd, for the due preservation 

 against these accidents and common occurrences by which 

 it suffers in a greater degree than any other of our domestic 

 animals. 



The sheep belongs to that large family of quadrupeds 



