THE SHEEP-SCAB. 



Between the Mississippi River on the east, 

 the Pacific Ocean on the west, and extending 

 south to the farthest extremity of Texas, lies a 

 vast area of country peculiarly favorable to the 

 raising of live stock. It possesses advantages in 

 the way of grazing, climate and adaptability to 

 the handling of large flocks or herds, equalled by 

 few, and perhaps surpassed by no other countries 

 of the globe. During the past thirty years the 

 great resources of this region have become fully 

 appreciated," and the progress made in the propa- 

 gation of stock, within the last decade, has been 

 something enormous j and not the least impor- 

 tant feature, ' in this remarkable development, is 

 the great increase in sheep. So rapid a growth 

 in any industry, where the management is on a 

 large scale and without due regard to details, is 

 almost always accompanied by an increase of the 



