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liay j they left to glean in the fields when theta 
is no snow, and when there is, to feed upon the 
coarsest hay, or the leaves and branches of trees^ 
which is frequently the only provender laid up for 
them. It is held by the British agriculturalists, that 
bad keeping makes bad wool. If the sheep are al¬ 
ternately well fedj and starved, the w’^ool will be of 
different strength and thickness^ and of course une¬ 
qual and of a bad staple^ 
THAt the climate effects no change in them, I 
infer from the great success that has attended the 
introduction of Spanish sheep, which, where they 
have been treated with a little attention, have so 
greatly improved in their si 2 e, form and fleece, 
without any change in the quality Of the Wool, that 
full bred rams imported directly from Spain, may 
now be purchased in France at a much less price 
than rams fi-om the national flock at Rambouillet ; 
a race that were introduced about twenty years ago 
into France, Superfine cloth can only be made 
from Spanish wool, and that without mixture with 
other sons, from which it differs so materially, that 
Anderson asserts, on the information of British 
manufacturers, that they cannot be wrought togeth¬ 
er. The different species of broad cloth are not 
made by mixture with British wool, but by Span¬ 
ish wool of different qualities. The coarse cloths 
only, are made of British wool. France, as well as 
all the rest of Europe, being dependent upon Spain 
for the wool ^used in their fabricks of fine cloth, 
