152 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
the different qualities* and pay for each the fair mar- 
ket price, he would soon acquire his circle of cus- 
tomers, who, for safety and from motives of policy, 
would wait a reasonable time for his agents. At 
least this would be the case with the holders of prime 
lots, and there would be no scramble and overpaying 
for inferior lots by themselves. There is nothing 
chimerical in this idea, certainly, when it is notorions 
that some manufacturers already practice on it suc- 
cessfully, and that much of the other produce of the 
country is bought and sold in that way. 
Substantial wool merchants planted in each wool- 
growing region, would afford a vast relief from the 
present system to the producers of good wools. 
In respect to selling an outrageous excess of yolk 
and dirt for wool, because somebody will buy it, I 
shall raise no questions of casuistry; but whether 
known or unknown to the purchaser, it should be be- 
low the aim of the elevated breeder. If we cannot 
breed the admirable domestic animals which have 
been given to us, without purposely alloying and de- 
grading them, let us abandon them and turn to other 
occupations. 
Suggestions as to the Future of Fine Wool Hus- 
bandry in our Country, 
I am strongly impressed with the opinion that the 
production of mutron has been too much disregarded 
* Tf it be said a single manufacturer does not want all the different 
qualities, let him, m regions where little 1s grown, buy al in order to 
keep his customers and his regzon to himself, and resell those he does 
not need. In regions where larger quantities are grown, different 
buyers would find room, and they might buy thiough the same agent. 
