TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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 Letter of transmittal 9 



Part I. — The Shbep Industry in States East of the Mississippi River. 

 By Ezra A. Carman: 

 Chapter I. The Wild Sheep of America, aud earliest introduction of 



Domesticated Breeds 11 



II. The Household Woolen Industry— 1607-1800 '. . . . 95 



III. Introduction of the Spanish Merino Sheep 131 



IV. The Dissemination of the Spanish Merino throughout New 



England. Progress of the fine-wool Industry And its 



decline 217 



V. Introduction of the Fine-Wooled Sheep into the Middle and 

 South Atlantic seahoard States, and the subsequent 



progress of Sheep Husbandry 349 



VI. The Sheep Husbandry of Western Pennsylvania and the 



Pan-Handle of West Virginia 483 



VII. The Sheep Husbandry of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, 



and Wisconsin 52i 



VIII. The Sheep Husbandry of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, 



Alabama, and Florida 657 



Paht II.— Condition of the Sheep Industry West op the Mississippi 



ElVER. 



By H. A. Heath and John Minto : 

 Chapter I. The Sheep Industry in Montana and North and South Da- 

 kota 701 



II. The Sheep Industry in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah 771 



III. The Sheep Industry in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Mis- 



souri, and Kansas r. - 811 



IV. The Sheep Industry in Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and 



Arizona 885 



V. The Sheep Industry in California, Oregon, and Washing- 

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