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flock, and notes with pride every improvement he makes in them. 
Their food should be liberal, but they should not be pampered. 
In this latitude they require good shelter, and pay well for a small 
allowance of grain. Lambs, or teggs, as they are sometimes called, 
do better when fed a small allowance of bran and oats, than when 
fed on corn. The details of sheep husbandry I must omit at this 
time. Whatever variety of sheep you desire to breed, use only 
thoroughbred males of that breed, and those selected with care, 
though not necessarily the highest or fancy priced, unless you are a 
breeder of thoroughbred stock. Kemember that too close breed¬ 
ing reduces size and produces a finer wool than the parent stock. 
Too close inbreeding is unsafe, unless in the hands of the expert, 
and then not always a success. How we admire those master 
spirits of the renowned breeders who have fashioned, molded 
and improved all the valuable qualities of our domestic animals. 
They have reared to themselves monuments of honor more last¬ 
ing than those of marble. While the works of the grand master are 
only the resemblance of nature, those of Bakewell, Hammond, 
Codings, Bates and Booth, are the realities of nature in their mas¬ 
terly hands. 
POLAND CHINA HOC. 
Read before the State Agricultural Convention, in February, 1873. 
BY HON. M. ANDERSON, CROSS PLAINS. 
The subject upon which I have been requested by the commit¬ 
tee to address you is the Poland China Hog. I acknowledge the 
subject at first view appeared to me limited, one upon which very 
little could be said that would interest the farmers of Wisconsin, 
especially at the present time, when the low price of pork causes 
the farmer to look upon hogs, even the best breeds, as being of 
little value. But in looking at the statistical reports, I find that 
hisswineship makes a respectable showing among the products of 
