. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. CHAPTER XVII SHEEP TYPES AND BREEDS Types.—Sheep are kept for mutton and wool produc- tion. Some breeds are specially adapted to the production of wool and do not produce the best quality of mutton. Other breeds are well adapted to the production of mutton, but are not so well adapted to wool production. There are two common ways of classifying sheep, one, on the basis of wool, as fine wool, medium wool and long wool. The other, as fine wool and mutton. By the last classification the mutton bree
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. CHAPTER XVII SHEEP TYPES AND BREEDS Types.—Sheep are kept for mutton and wool produc- tion. Some breeds are specially adapted to the production of wool and do not produce the best quality of mutton. Other breeds are well adapted to the production of mutton, but are not so well adapted to wool production. There are two common ways of classifying sheep, one, on the basis of wool, as fine wool, medium wool and long wool. The other, as fine wool and mutton. By the last classification the mutton breeds include the medium wool and long wool breeds. Fine wool breeds have been bred chiefly for wool production. The wool on these breeds is compara- tively short, thick and very fine, and very oily, so that a great deal of dirt sticks to it. Their bodies are thin and irreg- ular and their skins are very much wrinkled. These breeds are smaller generally than the mut- ton breeds. The}^ have Figure 95—A Rambouillet, a fine wool type, white faCCS and the maleS have horns and the ewes are hornless. American and Delaine Merinos are the most important breeds in this class. They were brought to America from Spain more than a hundred years ago. They have been generally recognized as American breeds. The American Merino is very much wrinkled. The Delaine Merino is wrinkled, but not so much as the former. Ram-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875-; Wilson, E. W. , joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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