. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 184 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Sheep on the Swiss Alps chiefly to the Alps, where the sheep that spendthe winters near the mouths of the Rhone andalong the banks of the Crau are congregatedin summer. On the plains of the Crau they arenever put into sheepcots except at shearingtime. At night they are kept in inclosuresmade with hurdles of willow branches, renewed every second day. The shep-herds stay night and day withtheir flocks in the open air,the dogs keeping watch out-side the hurdles against wildanimals. In the morning eachshe
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 184 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Sheep on the Swiss Alps chiefly to the Alps, where the sheep that spendthe winters near the mouths of the Rhone andalong the banks of the Crau are congregatedin summer. On the plains of the Crau they arenever put into sheepcots except at shearingtime. At night they are kept in inclosuresmade with hurdles of willow branches, renewed every second day. The shep-herds stay night and day withtheir flocks in the open air,the dogs keeping watch out-side the hurdles against wildanimals. In the morning eachshepherd takes out his troopand leads it to the pasturageappointed for it. The Merinowas first brought to theUnited States in iSoi, be-tween which date and 1812large numbers, probably asmany as twenty thousand,were landed and scatteredchiefly through New England,the Atlantic states, and in these importa-tions were David Humphreys,Minister to Spain; Chancellor Livingston, Min-ister to France ; and William Jarvis, Consul toPortugal. These gentlemen, mindful of the im-portance
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