. Fig. 31. Fig. 32. Healthy ttber of wool. Break in wool—A diseased fiber in the same locality with it (fig. 31). These samples were taken from the common native sheep which have a small infusion of Southdown blood in them, somewhat far back, but still show it in their occasional smutty faces and legs. This defect is equivalent to a diary, or nearly so, of the sheep's condition. When the first failing occurs the weak spot is of course at the skin, but as the fleece grows this weak spot is carried up, and although the fault may not hap- pen again this evidence of it remains in the wool. If it i
. Fig. 31. Fig. 32. Healthy ttber of wool. Break in wool—A diseased fiber in the same locality with it (fig. 31). These samples were taken from the common native sheep which have a small infusion of Southdown blood in them, somewhat far back, but still show it in their occasional smutty faces and legs. This defect is equivalent to a diary, or nearly so, of the sheep's condition. When the first failing occurs the weak spot is of course at the skin, but as the fleece grows this weak spot is carried up, and although the fault may not hap- pen again this evidence of it remains in the wool. If it is repeated, the same failing is marked on the record, and so on, until the sheep is shorn, when the fleece is worthless if it is badly defective, and lessened in value proportionately with the amount of defect in It. It is really the most common defect in wool. Another disease is that commonly known as stripy wool. This affects the fleece in the most valuable part of itj
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