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Show those acquainted with its virtues to a higher and better life; that its silvery fleece may grow in size and numbers until within a few years it shall supply sufficient raiment to clothe the best people on earth with the raiment that nature intended man should wear without importing a single pound; that its flesh, the cheapest, the most nutritious, and the most healthful of all meat food, may grace the table of every family in the nation, and bring cheer and strength to the heart of every man who labors for his nation's welfare. This paper is published by the National Wool Growers Association and it will appear some five or six times during the year whenever occasion seems to demand it. Its principal field will be the publication of addresses delivered during the NWGA conventions, and the publication of other matters of importance to the sheep industry. This association is honored by the membership and support of the dues of hundreds of sheepmen who find it impossible to attend its annual convention. Those men have the right to know what their association does, and we take this means of placing its acts before them. The present is the most critical year in the history of the sheep industry, and it is the time when every flockmaster should he informed upon all questions affecting his welfare. The average flock-master is.not well informed on the tariff and its relation to wool, and this paper hopes to thoroughly and honestly place this great question before him for his serious consideration. All sides will be given a hearing to the end that justice Will he done, The National Wool Grower will he sent free to all memhers of the association, whether he owns ten sheep or ten thousand. It knows no section of the country and stands for no hreed of sheep. Its creed is "Protection to one and all, large or small, Merino or cross-blood." We hope that this 132 |
