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or a change in the prize-sheet at the Smithfield Club and 
Hanover Square, come equally natural to one ' with the con- 
centrated energy of half-a-score of men.' " 
In a word it might be said of him — 
" He was a man, take him for all in all, ' \ 
"We shall not look upon his like again." 
IX. — Wool in Relation to Science icith Practice. By Earl 
Cathcart. 
CoXTEKfS. 
PAGE I 
Introduction 309 
The Wool of the World .. .. 310 ' 
American Opinion 310 | 
The First Imperial Census .. 311 
The Wool-Grower's Aim and Ob- | 
ject 312 
History of Wool and the Wool 
Trade 313 
The ' Journal' of the Society as 
it relates to the Subject .. 315 
Science of the Subject .. .. 316 
Definitions 317 
PACE 
Physical Geography .. .. .. 319 
Geology 319 
Meteorological Considerations . . 321 
Animal Physiology 322 
Chemistry 326 
The Yolk 327 
Mechanics 329 
Statistics 330 
The Flocks of the World .. 338 
Essentially practical, and prac- 
tically suggestive 340 
Introduction. — Breeding, feeding, and wool, are three words that 
sum the essentials of sheep-husbandrv, which the foreigner tells us 
truly is the basis of our agricultural system. Sheep-husbandry — 
meat and w ool — is, without doubt, more than ever characteristic 
of Eng^lish farming: — the largest return in the shortest time. 
But whilst their great importance is fully acknowledged, the 
design of this essay touches the two first of these essentials inci- 
dentally only to dwell chiefly on the quality of English wool, 
as affected by its farm preparation for market, and this in 
relation to Science with Practice. 
I would endeavour for the first time in history to bring the 
English wool-consumer and the English wool-grower into 
friendly relations, uniting them on the only sound basis of a 
mutual understanding of intercommunity of interests — promoted 
by free association and co-operation. 
Mr. Stephens,* one of the most practical writers in the whole 
range of English agricultural literature, tells us — it would be 
well for wool-growers to receive lessons from wool-staplers : 
wool-growers at present grow their wool in ignorance of the 
requirements of the home manufacture, and consequently prices 
and interests are seriously affected. As the sequel will show, 
the truth and prescience of these words have been practi- 
cally laid to heart by our shrewd Colonial brethren, and by our 
* Author of the ' Book of the Farm.' 
