••6d AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM 



flock, of undouhted high bIood.§ The rams, twelve in 

 number, were picked from a flock of two hundred ; for, 

 except the Manso, or bell wether, the males are left en- 

 tire, on a presumption that they carry more wool than 

 "\velhers, and equally fine. The couples (ewes and 

 lambs) were selected from a number proportionably 

 large. Of the high blood and quality of this flock, the 

 admiration of those shepherds, through whose flocks, 

 twenty two in number, Ihey passed in the course of 

 their journey, about the end of xMarch, was sufficiently 

 indicative, if not otherwise established. Of (heir pjo- 

 pcrties as to carcass, and, which is equally material, 

 their power of living hard, so as to carry much wool 

 and flesh on a small surface of land, it will be as well to 

 draw a conclusion from fact, rather than from assertion. 

 That must not be deemed a bad breed of sheep, which, 

 after a trial of some centuries, can maintain its higli qua- 

 lity of wool, making two immense annual journeys, and 

 in a less space of time than could well be supposed, more 

 cspeciall}' vvhen we recollect that the first journey com- 

 mences when lambs are four months old, or even less. 

 There are few breeds in this country that could support 

 such periodical marches for any length of time, and not 

 sufter materially in the form as well as quality' ol the 

 carcass, for both arc inseparable, being, as before ob- 

 served, fed from the same sources. 

 To be continued, 



§ The Flocks bearing flne Wool in Spain, ire dijtmffuishet) by the »ppeIljtion of Trsshuirsiitc j 

 •sd 19 called from travelling from one end of the kingdom to the other : wintered in Estraniailura, 

 and other warm provinces; durioR the summer months fhey graje on the moimtiins of C.astille, 

 X<eaD, and Asturias. On the contrary, those flocks which are always stationary, are, for that r'a» 

 f 00, called SsUate, and belong to the pTovioces of Estramadura, K^olioa, Cordova^ k otl|er distrlctj , 



tin THE FSOFEB KIND OF SEED VTREAT AND THE CAt'SES OF SMUT AND OTHER 

 DISOKDRRS TO WHICH THAT GEAIN IS LIABLE. 



9y $ir John Sinclair, Bart, President of the Boar4 of Agriculture, 



There is reason to believi?, that (he practice of using 

 young seed, instead of old seed has greatly contrii^uted 

 to occasion the smut, and the other disorders to whicli 

 that grain is liable. Any thing that weakens (he plant 

 must sooner or later be (he parent of the disease. Now, 

 young seed germinates immediately, and the flower it 



