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Show The Mutton Intere'st of Great Britain. ' ! ; This has been one of the leading agricultural industries of Great Britain for a long time. Australia and New Zealand are sending now large quantities of frozen mutton to England which is likely to aff ept the averago price of that article in English markets. We should b& very glad to see America preparing pre-paring more systematically for a participation in this trade. There is no country better fitted for it than America, but whether this will be accomplished under the present stimulus of beef production we do not feel at all certain. Americans as a whole .are poor shepherds and fiopkm8Btei;s, pot giving thai'atten- tion and care which is desirble in ; securing the best rosultB. jH Tho imports of frozen mutton in ' ) . - to England wore treblod last year a : compared with 18S2, and aro still increasing by leaps and bounds to ' such an oxtent as to afford anindi- cation that Australia, New Zealand 1H and. tho rivor Platte, could together " supply tho metropolis without di- - ficulty with the whole of tho mut- 1 ton it requires for consitmptibn. English live stock journals antici-! pate that the sheep breeders of Eng-r land will be obliged to use the best H breeds and produce the Best quali- ii ty to comploto at all with this ' Bi .foreign trade. . &py new feature that makes a . MM disturbing element in trade is like-1 WM ly to create fears that time will cure. The more fertile fields of our west-ern west-ern country frightened the New H England farmers ot of .stock breed-ing, breed-ing, and their f ai-ms have deprecU " H ated aud their agricultoal interests hayo depreciated. There is now a nev- ihterost being taken tn ' N.ewt&tj , ! England in live stock matters, and the probability is that 0d England ' 1 WM will be stimulated by this coinpeti- ' 1 H tion to newer and T)etter methods;: jH and find a jrosperity in its ; -live-- : w stock iuterest tbat it has never ' yet known. Breeder's ' Journal' jfoflJI June. , . 8 ' ' - ITi it Hit- -.' H4 1 |