. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ner had to resign himselfto the ruin of his cro])s. Agriculturetely impossible inily of these sheej) ards the close ofe eighteenth cen-ury an edict of theing of Spain gaveto the owners ofsuch property theright to inclosetheir lands andthus save themfrom the depreda-tions of the sheep;but it was notuntil the nine-teenth centurythat a royal de-cree gave back tothe proprietors,great and small,all rights to thecontrol of theira n d. That wasthe entl, in Spain,of the raising of Merino sheep in vast num-bers. Pastiucs were transform
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ner had to resign himselfto the ruin of his cro])s. Agriculturetely impossible inily of these sheej) ards the close ofe eighteenth cen-ury an edict of theing of Spain gaveto the owners ofsuch property theright to inclosetheir lands andthus save themfrom the depreda-tions of the sheep;but it was notuntil the nine-teenth centurythat a royal de-cree gave back tothe proprietors,great and small,all rights to thecontrol of theira n d. That wasthe entl, in Spain,of the raising of Merino sheep in vast num-bers. Pastiucs were transformed into wheatfields, vincNards, and olive orchards. The greatmigrations became a thing of the past, and theMerino sheep have now been largely replacedby others that give more meat and remain onthe farms. Italy, also, had flocks which migrated tothe Apennines and the Abruzzo from theplains of Apulia, and stilf has them, but theynever traveled such long distances as in south of 1<ranee also has traveling flockswhich journey jjartly to the Pyrenees, but. 184 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS
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