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AGRICULTURE ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE 



Persia, just as we see them on similar ranges in our Plains 

 country and in our mountains. 



Sheep will eat rough, dry, prickly plants which only the 

 burro and goat would touch. But the sheep bites deeply into 

 the plants it crops and often destroys them, so that par- 

 ticular care must be taken not to put too many animals on 



FIG. 201. Different kinds of sheep: fine- woolled wrinkled merino (at the 

 left), long-woolled black-face Highland (at the right.) 



a pasture (overstocking), or keep them there too long; else 

 only weeds will be there the next season. That is why the 

 cattlemen so often object to sheep being driven over their 

 pastures. 



One of the important services sheep render to the 

 farmer is to eat off the stubble of grain after harvest, 

 leaving their droppings to return to the land. This is 

 vastly better than to burn stubble or straw, when only 

 the ashes are left. 



The Hog, or Swine, seems to have been derived from 

 the wild hog of Europe, where the wild breed still 

 roams in the large forests and is hunted as game. Hogs 

 will quickly become wild again when turned out into the 

 woods ; and then become a good deal like the " razor- 



