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the protection of huge, wolf -like dogs, not unlike those I had seen similarly 

 occupied in Greece some months back. These Merinos did not make a very 

 brave show. They were no improvement on those pictures of the early 

 unimproved Merinos that have been handed down to us by our forefathers. 

 Long of limb, flat in the barrel, irregular in the backline, they were all that a 

 sheep should not be. I cannot answer for the wool, as the sheep were too 

 wet to be handled. I endeavored to secure some photographs of the flock, 

 but weather conditions were too unfavorable for anything like success in 

 this direction. 



BARCELONA. 



We left Madrid for Barcelona on the evening of October 31st. I tarried 

 a day here as I wished to secure from the British Consul-General in this city, 

 and from the Barcelona British Chamber of Commerce, information I had 

 been unable to obtain in Madrid. Unfoitunately I chanced on one of those 

 numerous feast days, dear to the heart of the Spaniard. Public offices were 

 all closed, and I had to fall back on published documents which the Consul 

 was good enough to forward me. I was much struck with Barcelona ; with 

 its wide thoroughfares and its fine buildings, it is the most modern and least 

 Spanish of the cities of Spain. It is by far the most important commercial 

 and industrial centre of the Peninsula, and, it may be added concurrently, 

 its most turbulent city. Barcelona boasts of about 550,000 inhabitants, 

 most of w r hom are Catalans, many of whom do not even appear to under- 

 stand Spanish. I was surprised to notice that everywhere in this city the 

 names of the streets are always inscribed in two languages, Spanish and 

 Catalan. The city itself is beautifully situated at the foot of the heights 

 of Tibidabo, from the summit of which one enjoys magnificent panoramic 

 views both towards the sea and the distant Pyrenees. 



THE CEREALS OF SPAIN. 



I have as yet said little of the cereals of Spain ; and yet Spain, with all 

 its other resources, may still be described as one of the great wheat-growing 

 countries of the world. Unfortunately neither the time of the year nor the 

 special localities that I visited were suited to inquiries in this direction. 

 The following statistical data, however, will serve to show how great are the 

 special cereal interests of the Spanish peninsula. 



In 1907 the area under wheat in Spain was represented by 9,244,812 acres, 

 and in 1908 by 9,391,803 acres. The total wheat harvest was represented 

 by 100,121,241bush. in 1907, and by 119,718,075bush. in 1908, or general 

 average yields per acre of 10*83bush. and 12-64bush. respectively. In the 

 total area under wheat in 1908 are included some 503,030 acres of wheat 

 that had been irrigated, and which yielded at the rate of 20-56bush. to the 



