. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. paid little attention to the conformation of theirbodies for butchers meat; the production offine wool was the only thing they really caredabout. Italy has never been a mutton-eating country ; even to this daythe servants of a householdobiect to it as food. he origin of the name Merino bears a re-lation to the originof the sheep them-selves. They cameby sea {met) toSpain, but nothingdefinite is knownabout their coming., Their ancestors- probably came, inpart at least, fromAfrica, Spain havingalways held active inter-course wit
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. paid little attention to the conformation of theirbodies for butchers meat; the production offine wool was the only thing they really caredabout. Italy has never been a mutton-eating country ; even to this daythe servants of a householdobiect to it as food. he origin of the name Merino bears a re-lation to the originof the sheep them-selves. They cameby sea {met) toSpain, but nothingdefinite is knownabout their coming., Their ancestors- probably came, inpart at least, fromAfrica, Spain havingalways held active inter-course with that continent, asis shown by the settlement of theMoors in the south of Spain, with theirindustries, their agriculture, and theirknowledge of breeding, in which they attainedgreat proficiency. On the other hand, thereare some reasons that allow us to think that the. Sheep THH SHKKP 183 ancestors of the Merinos came from EnLjlancl,for up to a certain point these sheep ha\e char-acteristics that exactly correspond with theshort-haired sheep of England, especially inquantity and qualit}. There was long a keenrivalry between the wools of Spain antl Eng-land, so that Henry II, king of England, de-creed, in 1189, that all cloth manufacturedfrom Spanish wool should be publicly burned. In ancient times it was thtom to take the shecflocks to summer pa;on the mountainnorthern Spain, brining them back iw inter t o theirsouthern practice be-came general inthe fifteenth cen-tury as a conse-quence of thegreat wars of thatperiod, w h i c hobliged the own-ers of vast flocksto sa\-e them fromthe eye of theenemy. Princes,nobles, and con-vents alone hadthe right to makethese many of themowned the land through which the flocks traveled they deriveda considerable revenue from this boundaries were set up in all dire
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