Animal products; . ometimes narrowor cat-hammed. There are also folds of skin gathered togetherover the tail, giving the puckered appearance known as the-rose. The Hungarian Merino wool ranges from one inch to one and ahalf inch in length, is of marvellous fineness, and mostly of richorange colour, from the grease. The colour occurs in deep bands,which shade into a light yellow, and the samples have a richcandied appearance, as though they had been immersed in sugarysyrup. The Saxon Merino sheep have been divided into Rambouillet, c 2 20 FOREIGN BREEDS OF SHEEP. Negretti, and Electoral, but cr
Animal products; . ometimes narrowor cat-hammed. There are also folds of skin gathered togetherover the tail, giving the puckered appearance known as the-rose. The Hungarian Merino wool ranges from one inch to one and ahalf inch in length, is of marvellous fineness, and mostly of richorange colour, from the grease. The colour occurs in deep bands,which shade into a light yellow, and the samples have a richcandied appearance, as though they had been immersed in sugarysyrup. The Saxon Merino sheep have been divided into Rambouillet, c 2 20 FOREIGN BREEDS OF SHEEP. Negretti, and Electoral, but crossing has produced many varieties,Saxon Merino rams clip from seven and a half to fifteen pounds,and ewes five and a half to six and three-quarter pounds ofwool.* The Electoral Merino is well and strongly built: the head is ofmiddle length and pretty broad, the neck short and fleshy, theshoulder and rump wide, back straight, and the body round ; are firmly placed and well set. The animals have thickly set. RAMBOU1LLET-NEGRETTI RAM, POMERANIA. wool, and are remarkably well covered, especially upon the belly,,feet, and head. The wool is usually soft, of middle length, withmild and not too rich grease. The Zackel sheep are distributed over the mountainous regions * In a framed case, with 24 compartments (No. 10), will be found a goodcollection of Saxony wools, and another in No. 25. Case 52 contains i&samples of fine German wools, and No. 54 samples of fine French wools androvings. Cases 53, 55, and 56 contain fine samples of Hungarian wools,,washed and in the grease, with locks mounted to show the staple. AFRICAN FAT-TAILED SHEEP. 21 of Transylvania and Galicia. They represent the division of long-woolled sheep {Ovis strepiceros), are of various colours, and notfixed in their character even with regard to horns; some ramshaving long horns, while others, from Galicia, are hornless. Theyyield from six to eight and a half pounds of coarse unwashedwool. It is reckoned that
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