. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE MERINO OR FINE-WOOL TYPE OF SHEEP 335 Delaines and Rambouillets represent this type. These have a fleece with less yolk and weight although an increased length of staple, with a still larger, smoother body, approaching nearer the mutton type of carcass, while the fleece retains its typical fine-wool character. The use of the three classes of Merinos may be found in the very best American flocks, one man keeping sheep of each class. As sheep of Class C lack weight and quality of fleece to some. Fig. 149. The Sweepstakes Merino ram of the Class
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE MERINO OR FINE-WOOL TYPE OF SHEEP 335 Delaines and Rambouillets represent this type. These have a fleece with less yolk and weight although an increased length of staple, with a still larger, smoother body, approaching nearer the mutton type of carcass, while the fleece retains its typical fine-wool character. The use of the three classes of Merinos may be found in the very best American flocks, one man keeping sheep of each class. As sheep of Class C lack weight and quality of fleece to some. Fig. 149. The Sweepstakes Merino ram of the Class B type at the Illinois State Fair and the .St. Louis Exposition and Fair. Exhibited by C. H. Bell of Ohio. Photograph from the American Sheep Breeder extent, careful matings of rams of Class A are made upon ewes of C, resulting in the more desirable B sort, shearing much more easily than those of A, giving a reasonably heavy fleece, and producing an improvement over A for mutton. By variously mating these three classes the breeder may secure a type of Merino to suit his special needs. Thus some of our best breeders are able to supply calls for sheep of any or all of the three types. The head of the Merino sheep should be short, broad at the muzzle, with large nostrils. A nose short and inclined to be. 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 Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston ; New York : Ginn
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