Show BREED OR environment an interesting question has hag lately arisen in view of the fact that merino sheep sent from vermont to the australian exposition at melbourne have taken prizes lor lof their wool thus apparently ais disposing posing of ane assertion theory argument or whatnot what not that america is ie not suited to the production of the wool peculiar to australia and hence removing from the arena of 0 an issue that has baa cost coat acres ani oue oceans anti of tariff reform and high pro talk those who took the negative of the named propos proposition hive been in much glee over this incontestable loconti aru argument ment in favor of the protection of the home product while those who resisted the duty on australian wools on the ground that thle this cou country atry coull could not produce the same grade at any price ard that protection was consequently only another name for exclusion were in a state slate of corresponding consternation bul bui a wonderfully ingenious if not wholly satisfactory explanation all round to Is vouchsafed ily by a trade journal which pretends to know what it is ie talking abaft this paper points out that the victorious vermont sheep were shorn of their fleeces before leaving their natives native state and that after lying in quarantine loe three months in the port of sydney they were again shorn and dipped to lr i event any chance of their infecting australian flocks with scab which ouight might possibly have been brought from this country thus the winning animals when judged nal not a pound of wool grown in the edite i states staten ora on their backs 21 disappointing as this dictum way may be to the nigh protectionists projectionists they will be able to console themselves L somewhat ome what in the reflection that tb the e average citizen welcomes the new ne w problem with joy and W whether bother it is the sheep that grows the neece fleece or the climate in which hu ho grows it iti that is responsible for the gride grade gr ide and texture of the wool woo despu tants still may differ and some for themselves decide but the puzzle buzze N will ill prove an agreeable change and can scarcely be more trying than the old familiar one as to the maternity of the chick whether the honor bonor goes to the hen ben that lays the egg or to the heu hen 1 hat bat hatches it |