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Sheep will grow almost anywhere, as is evidenced 

 by the fact that the following countries have raised and 

 exported wool to the United States alone: England, 

 Scotland, Dominion of Canada, "West Indies, British 

 Africa, British East Indies, Australia, Cuba, France, 

 Brazil, China, Argentine Eepublic, Dutch West Indies, 

 Guiana, Mexico, Italy, Venezuela, Belgium, United 

 States of Colombia, Uruguay, Russia on the Black Sea, 

 Chili, Denmark, Danish West Indies, Austria, and 

 Turkey. These countries embrace almost every climate 

 on the globe, and the sheep is indeed a rare animal to 

 adapt itself so readily to all circumstances. The finest 

 merino wool is grown in Spain, France, Algeria, Cape 

 Colony, on the La Plata, and in Australia. 



As observed at the commencement of this chapter, 

 the best climate for sheep is high, dry lands, where 

 little rain falls ; and generally the higher the lands the 

 rarer the air, and the drier the climate the better will 

 sheep thrive. 



In Asia sheep are grazed 15,000 feet above the level 

 of the sea ; but, while this is true, we must not forget 

 that they also range in Holland below the level of the 

 sea. I am told, however, none of the diseases, such as 

 dry-rot, balling, scab, and foot-rot, so common in low 

 countries, prevail in the high latitudes. 



The principal advantage of sheep land is in the fact 

 it will raise sheep when it will not produce cereals or 

 roots. The colonists in Africa, when they found they 

 could not farm, turned their attention to wool-growing, 

 and soon became thriving communities. The high and 

 dry plains of South America, where little rain falls for 



