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Show i:rly Mnturlly of Million. Tho old theory that prime mutton can only bo hud from ilund 4-year-old wothors has exploded, says a Scotch sheop brnedor. Indeed, 2-ycar-olds , now uro raro. Ono-ycar-olds nccm to I bo growing moro numerous ovory yenr, and nro becoming tho staplo mutton of tho country, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing it wns onco thought that sheop could not bo put In first-class order nt that uire. Kvorybody goes iu for early maturity, and probably it Is only by so doing that muttonmnklng can bo mndo to pny, excepting, of courso, In tho cases of old owes, which mnlco up a proportion of tho fat sheop killed ovory your, nnd which may, undor certain circumstances, leavo a good profit for fnttonlng. Nothing is moro certain than that tho age at which shoop can bo fatton-od fatton-od is bolng constantly losscned. During Dur-ing rccont years tho fut atook clubs havo boon compollod to cntlroly ro-cast ro-cast tholr prlzo lists. Classes of lambs hnvo beon Instituted, nnd thoy havo becotno tho loading foaturo nmong shoop classes. ' |