138 EULES OF CROSSING RECAPITULATED. 



early lambs for the butcheT on sterile and exposed situations 

 of the mutton region proper, or to produce earlier and better 

 mutton on the natural pastures and corn-producing soils of 

 the West, where its production as a leading object is 

 preferred to the production of wool, would redound enor- 

 mously to individual profit and to public utility. 



Vni. That with all breeds and families, crossing for the 

 sake of crossing, without a definite and well understood 

 object — under the vague impression that it is in itself bene- 

 ficial to health or thrift, or that some benefit, the character of 

 which cannot be anticipated, is likely to spring from it — is in 

 the highest degree improper and absurd. That in using rams 

 of the same breed and family taken fi-om difiierent and not 

 directly related flocks, the utmost care should be used to 

 select such only as conform as nearly as practicable to a 

 uniform standard of qualities, which the owner should have 

 previously adopted as the settled one of his flock. 



