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Show : SHIFTLESS FARMERS; t The San Francisco Chronicle, noting that fif ; teen carloads of mutton sheep are on the way to ; California from the East, says that California ' stockmen no doubt know what they can produce ' with most profit, and also that the sheep of California Cali-fornia are mostly fine wool sheep,' not the best for i mutton. The Chronicle is most considerate of California Cali-fornia stock-growers, else it would, state that the ' average California rancher has not many pf the ! elements of a real farmer in his make-up, and that V j rather than feed a sheep regularly for a month, he ; would sooner give it away and buy his mutton at a butcher shop. An outsider would say that it was ia disgrace to California to be importing mutton; 1 that it shows an utter lack of both thrift and in- ' dustry on the part of the men who own the great , ; farms, and who could, withput much trouble, not ;only supply their own . State with lambs and mut-, mut-, ton, but half a dozen interior States. And the pres-' nt prices emphasize that fact. It is the old habit. ; A range with a thousand cattle and not milk enough ! fcr the baby; all the bacon and hams, and most of I the butter'and eggs bought in town; mustang stock Instead of thoroughbreds; a scrub horse race in . town of more importance than an inclosed garden ' at home.' Some California! have lived too long. |