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No country can Ije much better adapted for the 

 breeding of sheep than the greater part of the king- 

 dom of Poland. Wherever it is attended to with due 

 skill it is found to be beneficial ; but the poverty of 

 the Landholders, and their want of knowledge of the 

 advantages to be derived from that kind of live stock, 

 keep them from devoting their land to their propa- 

 gation. 



A very intelligent Physician, a native of Germany, 

 whose acquaintance I had the pleasure to make in 

 Poland, and who devotes the money acquired by his 

 medical practice to the purchase and the cultivation 

 of land, told me that he purchased, four or five years 

 before, a flock of fine- wooled sheep of Saxon electoral 

 breed; that he had already sold in fleeces and lambs 

 as much as had replaced the whole capital expended, 

 and had at present double the number which he had 

 originally purchased. This striking instance of suc- 

 cess, in an experiment of rural economy, is known to 

 most of the cultivators ; and yet it has been able to 

 produce such few followers, that I was assured there 

 were yet in Poland only two other flocks of unmixed 

 fine-wooled Merino sheep. This gentleman was one 

 of the first that had cultivated green crops on an 

 extensive scale for feeding sheep; and though the 

 benefit of it was obvious, both in the produce of the 

 wool, and the increase of the quantity and quality of 

 his Corn, it has had but little influence hitherto on the 

 conduct of others, and that little is confined to a small 

 spot near the capital. 



Of the sheep in Poland, the best are those in the 

 province of Lublin ; but they are very far inferior to 

 the breed of Saxony. The cows are a smallish race, 

 and generally kept in bad condition, both as to food 

 and cleanliness. They are for the most part stall fed, 

 but from negligence yield very little butter, and no 

 tolerable cheese. 



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