We give them credit for a higher aim than the mere matter of gaining tho prize, for lot It be remembered the Association, upon the other hand,caunot possibly ever be In a position to fully compensate for the time, the care and the expense which stock breeders devote to their public-spirited efforts to produce the best sheep or cattle. In leaving this matter, then, lt> is to bo honed that when any friction upon a sub ject of tbe kind crops up again the breeders, at any rate, will adopt a mag* nanimous course and rise above a tem porary difficulty with a determination that in any case tbey look upon the public as the highest arbiter and the best judges. Having said so much about the merino classes It Is over. We may go on to extol In the highest degree the exhibits In the larger framed and larger woolled sheep, which are now rapidly improved upon every breeder's farm In the country. Tho advance made with English and Border Leicester and Lincoln sheep has been simply wonderful; but, in view of the trade which tbe colony has opened for herself in the market of the world a decided incentive Is met with, accounting for why this Is so. The demand for wool from New Zealand clips, together with the, fact that the frozen mutton trade has gone up by leaps and bounds in the last nineyears,hasawakened an Interest which it behoves every colonisb to cultivate. In tbe year 1880 the import of frozen mutton oarcases into England was limited at 400; last year the old country took In 1,9<5,208. New Zealand sent Home sheep in 1882, which could not be called a source Ot more than 3 per cent, of the frozen meat supply of England. Early this year her quota had reached 60 per cent., or more than half of the whole Supply. Our nval-rthe Argentina Be puDUo—sends In 88 per cent., and 61b out of every 71b Of foreign fresh mutton goea into .Great Britain from our own colony and the Republic. To further promote oui business the writer then deems it his duty as a loyal colonist, to impressively urge the necessity that all sheep breeders should join hand to hand in promoting the advancement of suitable freezing sheep. 