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348; Merinos rarely eaten, 349 ; their pas- 

 tures, ib.; mode and distance of travelling, 

 350, 352 ; land required for the summer 

 keep of a Merino, ib.; time and process of 

 shearing, 351; use of charcoal in healing 

 wounds, ib.; salt given to them, 352. et seq. 

 sorting and division of the wool 353 ; me- 

 thod of washing the w^ool, 355 ; the lambs 

 wool, how applied, ib-; proportion of the 

 Estantes to the Trashumantes, ib.; several of 

 the fiocks of the Estantss yield fleeces equal 

 to the best of the Trashumantes, ib ; disea- 

 ses to which the Merinos are subject, ib.; 

 nature of the Mesta or code of laws for re- 

 gulating the Spanish flocks, 356; number 

 of the flocks, ib.; origin of the Merino 

 breed of sheep, 357 ; inquiry into the qua- 

 lity of English wool and cloth, and the 

 price of sheep, from the earliest times, 357, 

 to 376; order of Henry II. for burning 

 cloth made of Spanish and English wool, 

 360 ; first exportation of wool from Eng- 

 land, 361; quantity of wool required to 

 make a yard of cloih, 362; effects of Charta 

 mercatoria, 364 ; the exportation of English 

 wcol, when interdicted, ib.; prices of wool 

 fixed by Act of Parliament, 366 ; exporta- 

 tion of live sheep prohibited, 369, but parti- 

 ally permitted, 371; the Merino breed not 

 derived from Britain, 375, 385 ; superiority 

 of Spanish to British wool, 380 ; description 

 of the present sheep in Holland, 390; con- 

 trast between the Merinos, and the Cots- 

 wold, 391; idea of the Merinos having 

 been brought from Africa, rejected, 393, 

 4C0; nature of the fine-woolled sheep of an- 

 cient Italy, 400; coincidence of the Merino 

 breed with that race, in form, fleece, con- 

 siiiutiop, and general treatment, 40?, el seq.; 

 time of the introduction of the Merino breed 

 into Spuin, 405; establishment, treatment, 

 and produce of the Merino breed in Sweden, 

 4c6; in Denmark, 408; in Saxony 409; in 



Prussia, 411; in Silesia, 412 ; in Hungary, 

 414; in Austria, 415; in Anspach, Bay- 

 reuth, Wirtemburgh, Mecklenburgh, Zell, 

 Brunswick, Baden, the Palatinate, Hanover, 

 and Holland, ib.; in Piedmont, 417 ; in 

 France, ib.; in Geneva, 421; in Russia, 

 425; at the Cape of Good Hope, ib.; in 

 New Holland, 426; in Great Britain, 429; 

 in Ireland, 432. 

 Merino Ryeland breed, of Dr. Parry, 433; first 

 establishment, ib.; number of the flock, 

 435; reasons for expecting the possibility of 

 producing fine wool in England, 435, et seq. 

 effect of crossing fine and coarse-woolled ^ 

 ewes, in point of fleece, 438, et seq.; Merino 

 ryeland wool superior in fineness of fila- 

 ment, inelasticity and softness, to the pure 

 Merino, 440, and may be still farther im- 

 proved, 441; advantages of selecting rams 

 with fine fleeces, ih.; accoimt of the wool, 

 cloth, and ke;symere, pioduced from the 

 Merino Ryeland breed, 442 ; proportions 

 of difl'erent sorts of wool in the fleece, 444 ; 

 age at which the wool is finest, 445 ; weight 

 of the fleeces, ih.; varies at different ages, , 

 446 ; waste by the yolk and other impurities, 

 and itiode of separating the yolk, 447,^/ seq.; 

 waste will not, by proper management, 

 amount to half the original weight of gross 

 wool, 449 ; value of the wool scoured, and 

 in the yolk, 450; expense of scouring, 451; 

 Merino-Ryeland wool proves more in the 

 manufacture than the pure Merino, 452 ; 

 causes of its so doing, 457; price at which 

 the wool, and cloth made therefrom, was 

 sold, 4i;4 ; account of the quality of the wool 

 of early crosses, A55 ; cflil'ctsof heat and food 

 on the wool, ib.; food given to the sheep, 456; 

 the wool does not fall off at a particular 

 season : experiment by the French on this 

 subject, 4s7 i ai count of the wool of the 

 latnbs, and of the cloth manufactured f;om 

 it, 458 ; the Merino Rytland breed, equal 



