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of Asia and Australia ; and should you establish the 

 production of the beet and the manufacture of sugar on 

 a large scale, you will find, as it has been found every- 

 where else, that three tons of the refuse beet, from 

 which the saccharine matter has been expressed, will 

 be equivalent to two tons of the best hay in sustaining 

 and fattening sheep and cattle. It therefore seems to 

 me that you will render a very important service, not 

 only to your own section but to the country at large, 

 if by making known these peculiar resources you pro- 

 mote the establishment of two such vital industries. 

 Either of them will doubtless succeed if undertaken 

 by proper hands ; but both should be established, as 

 each will contribute to the success of the other." 



Senator Conkling, of New York, writes : " On all 

 occasions of traversing the Plains — and I have crossed 

 them several times — my attention has been attracted to 

 the adaptation of the country to flocks. Indeed, the 

 most broken, abrupt, and waste places seemed to me 

 available for sheep-grazing. The dryness and softness 

 of the ground is one of the elements in the case to be 

 noticed ; but I am writing too hastily to do more than 

 bear testimony to the conclusion to which I came." 



Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, an extensive 

 sheep-raiser, writes of the Plains : " I have been and 

 am somewhat interested in raising sheep and producing 

 wool in Ohio, and I have given some attention to the 

 subject. I expressed my opinion of the future of 

 sheep-husbandry in this country in a speech which I 

 made, April 8, 1878, in Congress, and which I yet 

 believe to be correct. I then expressed the opinion 



