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I'clinary times, when the natural conditions of the market 

 :e not unsettled by war,) to grow first-class mutton sheep 

 iroughout most of New England, excepting Vermont and the 

 Drthern halves of New Hampshire and Maine — throughout 

 le eastern portions of New York and Pennsylvania — and 

 iroughout a. belt of country round every city and village, 

 ider or narrower according to its population — than it is to 

 row the wool sheep proper. And this area of mutton 

 reduction must steadily increase, pushing back wool 

 reduction further from, the sea-board and from all dense 

 ggregations of population. 



While the preceding facts, in my opinion, admit of no 

 sasonable question, it is nevertheless equally true that the 

 emand for wool in the United States is, as I shall presently 

 low, far less adequately supplied already with the domestic 

 foduct — and that this demand must of absolute necessity go 

 1 increasing forever in the same ratio with the increase of 

 ir entire population — so that, in the aggregate, the amount 

 f land and other capital, which can be profitably invested in 

 s production will always exceed that which can be profitably 

 ivested in mutton production, in the proportion of almost 

 ondreds to one. Our vast interior regions, with the 

 sceptions already indicated in the vicinity of cities, and with 

 srtain others which -it is not necessary to specify here — in 

 ther words, all regions remote from meat markets or from 

 'hich the transportation to such markets is distant or 

 spensive — can be more profitably devoted to the production 

 f wool as a leading object than muttftn. 



It will be seen from all the foregoing that there is, 

 roperly speaking, no competition whatever between the 

 lutton growing and the wool growing sheep — that their 

 3spective profitableness is purely a question of place and 

 Dme other circumstances which I am about to name — and 

 lat to raise that question abstractly, and independently of 

 dese local and other considerations, as is often done, is almost 

 s irrelevant and unmeaning as it would be to ask which is 

 de most profitable mode of transportation, ships or locomo- 

 Lves, without having reference to the fact whether such 

 ransportation must be made by land or water. I will now 

 roceed to examine the other qualifying local circumstances, 

 esides those of market. 



Climate. — The English improved mutton sheep in its 

 resent perfect development of all the points which constitute 



