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In closing, I would say, emphatically, to those 

 of you who have been breeding the coarser wools, 

 or who have been negligent as to the quality of 

 your flocks, lose no time in raising the standard of 

 your wool ; cull out the defective sheep, replace 

 them with full bloods or high grades, and use the 

 thoroughbred Merino rams for the increase. 



Missouri has the name of being a coarse-wool 

 State. Not more than two months ago, a manu- 

 facturer called on us for fine wool. We showed 

 him a pile of fine, unwashed Missouri; when he 

 remarked that he had not known before any fine 

 wools were grown in that State. Within recent 

 years a strong effort has been made, by a com- 

 paratively small number of growers, to establish 

 fine-woolled sheep in Missouri. They have made 

 good progress, but, gentlemen, the work is only 

 begun ; and let me encourage you all to use your 

 best endeavors to make your State what it is 

 capable of being, — equal to any in the produc- 

 tion of fine, deep-grown staple, that it may take 

 its proper place in the foremost rank of wool- 

 growing districts of the world. 



