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A·PPENDIX.nutes: but twelveewes, or eight wethers and rams, in the clay, axe eQllsid~reclsuffiçient.The difference is chiefly owing to the size of the animal, weight of.the. fleece, apd thetrouble the sheep gives.When shorn, they are marked and sorted. The skins of the sheep whiçh diedduring the preceding year are nowsheared, the skins having heen· wettea. anGl.placedon the con'Oe:r of a piece of timber.The flocks are kept separate, and guided by bell-wethers, thG" sheep knowing thesound of their own bell.If the weather is mild, they are turnedout to f('ed in. the day, al,)cl atll,ight the wallsof the buildings yield themshelter,: if the weather is bad, .they are hq~secl: '.' . In theopen plains about Segovia they suffer much during the first fe~.~,aYEl/q~.,thei~ ..flf(:>gressto the mountains; hut when once there, they have suffiGienèY ofshelter arnong the treesand bushes.Immediately as the shearing is finished, the wool is weighed by .scales and notby steelyards, which is not 80 exact. This is done uncler the direction of the faqtor,and according to his report of the weight. If the sale takes place immediately,ORe person attends on the part of the wo01-owne1', anq another on that of the purchaser,to note down the weight of the woo1. Onbein~ sold, it is immediately shiftedfrom the store of the one into that of the other, in Case, as above, that it is not firstcleaned, as, then, the sorting takes place at that operation.The sorting is the separation of the three kinds of wool of which each ,fleece consists,which is done with greatdexterity by the ricibidores; and itis aprocess in whichthe greatest care and skill are required, as thereondepends the rnen::antile credit ofthewool-grower. .They .part the wool on wooden frames, through whien the coarse and short falls, andtaking it up with both hands they divide it ac:cording to itsqualities. The breechingand wool of the legs 'is separated at the time of shearing, and is not included in thefleece. The first quality of wool is that of the loins and belly; the second, that of theneck and sides; and the third, that of the neck and shoulders. This separation requiresthe greatest skill and nicety. In the lamb's wool no distinction is made.The wool when divided is sold; some cleaned, others, not so: but the former ismore usually the case for exportation.Winterpasturage.-The tract allotted for this. cQnsists of Estremadllra, part of Andalusia,and La Mancha, on flCcount of their mildness of c1imate, and plenty of grassin winter.'Summerpastltrage.-·This consists of the mOUlltains ofLeon, Cuen~a,part of Arf,~gonand Castille, the verdure and humidity of w.bieh render thetn pe,culiarly appro~pl!îate for summer fe.eding.