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tiae dry season. Wheat or rie sown early, and tnr? 
nip seed with it, has been tried to advantage. Tlie 
turnips are fed off when the ground is dry or frozen^ 
and the grain, tho’ fed down, has been benefited by 
the trampling and dung of the sheep, more than 
to compensate this inconvenience, 
I SHOULD, before I conclude, say something upon 
the migration of the Spanish flocks, to which the 
fineness of their wool has been attributed. The 
travelling merinos of Spain amount to above five 
millions, they are driven (to the great injury of ag¬ 
riculture) from very remote parts of the kingdonig 
to the mountains, where they pass the summer, and 
are wintered in the plains. This keeps the wool 
from degenerating, by saving the sheep from the 
fold, and affording them that shade, water, and 
nourishment, that they could not meet with in the 
dry pastures of Spain during the hot season. But 
experience has demonstrated, that this is not essen¬ 
tial where they are well kept on the plains. There 
are many stationary flocks of merinos in Spain, 
%vhose wool is not inferior to that of those that trav¬ 
el. On the other hand there are large flocks of 
sheep in the north east of France, that do travel to 
the mountains during the summer, and yet bear 
very coarse fleeces. The merinos introduced into 
France and Sweden, never travel, and yet their 
wool has not degenerated; 
