. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS spiral horns which lean to one side in the sheepof Wallachia and stand erect in those of animals bear weather of all kinds, beingkept on the mountains in summer and brought. Ne in, Berkhanipstead down to the plains in winter. Besides milk andmeat, each animal can supply from four to sixpounds of wool, which is much in demand forthe manufacture of stockings and other coarsewoolen articles. The silver-liaircd sheep is found in the southof Africa. Blankets are made of its of th
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS spiral horns which lean to one side in the sheepof Wallachia and stand erect in those of animals bear weather of all kinds, beingkept on the mountains in summer and brought. Ne in, Berkhanipstead down to the plains in winter. Besides milk andmeat, each animal can supply from four to sixpounds of wool, which is much in demand forthe manufacture of stockings and other coarsewoolen articles. The silver-liaircd sheep is found in the southof Africa. Blankets are made of its of these sheep have beenbrought to our countrexcept as curiosities ;for agricultural purposes they couldnot compete withour present improved breeds. IV. MoorlandSheep The sheep of the moorsof northern Europe have longcoats of mixed wool and hair. Theyare coarser and more cowardly thanthose of Wallachia. Their wool is used only the heath or moors of northern Germany, Den-mark, Russia, the Low Countries, and parts ofEngland. It is not at all exacting, and livesprincipally on the gorse and heather producedby those arid regions. Thelaborers raise these sheep fortheir coarse wool, and formanure with which to fertilizetheir barren and stony flesh is considered verysav
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