. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. A PATAGONIAN RANCH HOUSE. its roof of galvanized iron. Next, in the sunny littie valley through which trickled a stream, andwhere vega grass grew, we came to a large housebuilt for the men. It also glistened with white-wash and was very comfortable. Corrals coveredone slope and fences enclosed pastures of no morethan a hundred acres. This seemed homelike, es-pecially as pure-bred Romney rams fed within 92 IN FOREIGN FIELDS them. The atmosphere of the place was not likeanything in North America, perhaps, yet if eastern
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. A PATAGONIAN RANCH HOUSE. its roof of galvanized iron. Next, in the sunny littie valley through which trickled a stream, andwhere vega grass grew, we came to a large housebuilt for the men. It also glistened with white-wash and was very comfortable. Corrals coveredone slope and fences enclosed pastures of no morethan a hundred acres. This seemed homelike, es-pecially as pure-bred Romney rams fed within 92 IN FOREIGN FIELDS them. The atmosphere of the place was not likeanything in North America, perhaps, yet if easternWyoming were so fenced and so stocked it wonld bestrikingly similar. Malcolm McLeod, the manager, was working atthe corral, assorting the rams. They would beturned with the ewes in April or May. He hadperhaps 750 rams in the corral and pnt them rather. CROSS-BRED ROMNEY SHEEP. rapidly through the assorting chute, taking outthose that he knew to be somewhat old, or that hedisliked for one reason or another. Some of therams showed perhaps a quarter of Merino blood;these he was discarding, although I could not re-frain from remonstrating with him, for in NorthAmerica we find that a certain percentage of Merino TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 93 blood adds to the value of the fleece and the hardi-ness of the sheep as well. Mr. McLeod is a most thorough man. He dipshis sheep with such care that he keeps the estanciapractically free from scab—that disease of the skinthat is caused hv an insect almost microscopicallysmall and that if allowed to develop has a terrible ef-fect on its unhappy host. He had just told me that fora year there had been no sign of the trouble, whenhis face grew stern and troubled. Catch thatsheep, he called to his Scotch shepherds, and a ramwas dragged out and examined. On its shoulderwas a patch of wool licked u
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