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is to avoid every highly pampered flock as tainted by 
Fraud ; and can he who attempts a fraud in one par- 
ticular be trusted in others? are his pedigrees of sheep 
of any value % 
While I intend to be distinctly understood as not 
including early shearing and summer sheltering, if 
avowed, among frauds, I again call attention to the 
fact that they can be and are made potent auxiliaries 
by those who pamper for dishonest purposes, and 
therefore they have the odor of bad association on 
them. Isthis not an additional reason for abandoning 
them? Is it not the safest, fairest, and best course, on 
the whole, to abandon aid unnecessary* and over arti 
ficial, and for all legitimate objects, wholly profitless 
systems in the management of our sheep? ‘These re- 
marks imply no objection to good keep In summer 
and winter, and to good winter shelter; and though a 
cavil might be raised as to where the demarcation line 
isto be drawn between good keep and pampering, 
every flock master, possessing common sense, will fully 
understand the distinction without any explanations. 
Breeding. 
The art of breeding is the art of selecting and 
coupling together those males and females which are 
best adapted to produce an improved and uniform off- 
* There are places, undoubtedly, where it may be more prudent to 
shut up sheep nights to protect them from dogs. Where this is im- 
mediately stated to you by a gentleman like William Chamberlain, in 
regard to his costly imported sheep, you feel that there is a necessity 
forit; and if he frankly adds that he prefers thus to preserve the color 
of his sheep, according to the German system to which they have 
e.er b2en used, you are fully satisfied with his motives. 
