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Show Receipts of sheep at Kansas City in the month of October fell off 73,250 as compared with October Oc-tober of last year, the decrease amounting to nearly 30 per cent. At Chicago the decrease was 324,750 head, or something over GO per cent. The Sun is willing to leave it to any intelligent person per-son to decide whether frco trndu has caused the herdsmen to hold their sheep because they expect ex-pect them to be moro profitable under freo trade than under protection, or whother the total number num-ber of sheep in tho country has decreased because be-cause the herdsmen expect thorn to be loss profitable prof-itable now than formerly. |