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in the morning with a pound of oats and vetches mixed. At ten, 

 o'clock A. M. half a pound of hay; at one o'clock P. M. half a 

 pound of sain foin; at 3 o'clock P. M. water; at 4 o'clock P. M. 

 half a dozen sheaves of oats, partly threshed; in the evening with 

 twenty pounds of str&w for every hundred sheep. In March the same 

 feeding is observed only they have water at 4 o'clock P. M. instead 

 of 3 o'clock P. M. 



In April, one pound of sain foin in the morning ; water at 8 o'clock 

 A. M. with straw; at 11 o'clock A. M. half a pound of sain foin; 

 at 2 o'clock P. M. half a pound of the same; water at 4 P. M.; at 

 6 o'clock P. M. fine sheaves of half threshed oats and twenty pounds 

 of straw for every hunJred sheep. The lambs have half a pound of 

 the best hay m the morning, water at 8 A. M. ; at 9 A. M. to each 

 hundred lambs, six half measures of oats; at 11 A. M. a half pound 

 of lucerne each; at 2 P. M. one pound of lucerne each. At half 

 past 4 P. M. six measures of oats to each hundred head; at half past 

 5 P. M. a pound of vetches and oats mixed to each. 



In May they begin to pasture, in the middle of the day, when it 

 is hot, the sheep are led to their stables for shelter. In rainy weather 

 they are fed with lucerne mixed with chopped chaff. 



In November stall feeding begins again. I saw the finest sheep of 

 Europe on the estates of the Arch Duke of Austria. The men em- 

 ployed there, were educated in agricultural schools, and thorough 

 science and practice were united in them. The price of fine wool 

 from these flocks was about $75 per 100 pounds of wool. Accurate 

 registers are kept of every sheep, so that the best are always readily 

 known at once. The coupling of rams with ewes, is not permitted 

 until the rams are about 2| years old. 



Some of the lands in Hungary are much like our western prairies, 

 these are found not to be so favorable to the health of the flocks. 

 The fine wool of Germany is (much of it) exported to England, 

 •while Hungarian wool of inferior quality is brought into Germany. 

 I think that wool produced by the Merino Ram and Leicester Ewes, 

 would be a good breed for the United States. The quality of wool 

 depends not only on the finish of the fibre but on its evenness, it has 

 a peculiar curl which manufacturers require to be uniform or they do 

 not like it. 



Mr. Fleischman said that boys of 12 to 14 were sent to the mo- 

 dern agricultural schools, where they are taught practical knowledge 



