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Show The Influence of Quality. We say that prices are regulated by supply and. demand, but we are apt to lose sight of the important part which quality plays in stimulating consumption and thus maintaining prices. Breeders who have placed themselves in the van of the movement move-ment to improve the live stock of this country have not only raised the standard of production, but have stimulated tne demand for the best In other words, their work has been twofoldy it has educated the taste of the consumer, while it has striven to meet the demand thus created. Englishmen Eng-lishmen who came to America ten or fifteen years ago and who interested themselves in live stock statistics, expressed ex-pressed great surprise over the small consumption of mutton by our people, but after they had sampled the cook- - ed article in the hotels of the United States they ceased to wonder that Americans had little appetite for that kind of meat. Under the encouragement encourage-ment of a protective tariff farmers raised sheep for wool and the mutton disposed of was a by-product Th ' ' quahty of the meat was on a par with the beef retailed in certain out-of-the-way-dairy districts whose markets are supplied from the local stock ol old cows fattened and sent to the ' shambles. With i ...m o.u mcreasea supply butchers and packers have learned that th best of mutton must be killed and dressed so carefully that no taint from the oil always present in the wool reaches the meat to give it the flavoi so unpleasant to many fastidious palates, pal-ates, and this careful dressing ha. also helped the trade. The improvement improve-ment of export facilities -have likewise like-wise encouraged the raising of mut- is another story. Though the growth of this branch of live stock industr has been rapid it has been permanent " " Mutton now holds high rank with other meats in the estimation of oui People, and its popularity is increas- |