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them Indian corn will set the fleece, by strengthening the 

 Sheep. 



(p) The fleeces are clipped but once a year. All our 

 fleeces are taken off in May or June. Sometimes we 

 shear the early Iambs in .Tuly or the beginning of Au- 

 gust; but it is not commonly practised. 



Miscellaneous Observations, (q.) The state of our po- 

 pulation and habits, now precludes us from going ex- 

 tensively into the Sheep Husbandry. If it ever should 

 become necessary, there are immense tracts which might 

 be devoted to it — they are now called barrens. These, 

 when burned, throw up a vegetation of white clover, and 

 abound with aromatic herbs and plants, favourable and 

 nutritious to Sheep. I do not find our Sheep more sub- 

 ject to diseases than those of other countries. But wc 

 shall be embarrassed in our means of keeping large 

 flocks through the winter, and in long winters their dis- 

 orders will be more contagious and fatal. The pelts 

 are now manufactured into parchment, and leather for 

 various uses — The latter is often died and substituted for 

 Morocco, but it is inferior to it. The parchment of this 

 country equals that imported, and can be increased in 

 quantity, so as nearly if not entirely to supersede the 

 necessity of importation. 



The wolves in our mountains are formidable to Sheep. 

 But these will decrease, although they may not be extir- 

 pated, by the progress of the settlements, I have been 

 told, that the wolf avoids the goat, either on account 

 of its smell or appearance — It is said that keeping a few 

 goats, especially he-goats, with the Sheep, has been on 

 this account practised with success, in some of our fron- 

 tier settlements. 



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