172 FINE WOOL SHEEP IIUSBANDRY. 
The examples of France, Germany, and England 
all show that vastly higher priced lands than any in 
New York must carry sheep to be made profitable ; 
and in the two first-named countries the wool-pro- 
ducing sheep is preferred to the mutton sheep—though 
the growers are exposed to the competition of the far 
cheaper wool-prodncing lands of Southern Russia 
and Ifungary, near by, and of the Cape of Good Hope, 
South America, and Australia, farther off, 
Norr.—I wish to express my own thanks, and the 
thanks of the Society for which I have prepared this 
paper, to the various breeders, wool-growers, manu- 
facturers, wool-merchants, and brokers, officers of the 
Society, and other persons who have contributed 
statements and facts for it. These thanks are, in a 
special manner, due to George Livermore, Esq., of 
Boston, for his indefatigable labors in my behalf. 
