Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . he crop had togrow thicker on the ground, density being carried to its extreme limit. • For this article on The Sheep In Australia we are Indebted to the December l^sue of theadmirable magazine LIFE issued monthly at Melbourne, Australia, for which courtesy on thepart of Its publishers due acknowledgment 1« here mnde. VARIET
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . he crop had togrow thicker on the ground, density being carried to its extreme limit. • For this article on The Sheep In Australia we are Indebted to the December l^sue of theadmirable magazine LIFE issued monthly at Melbourne, Australia, for which courtesy on thepart of Its publishers due acknowledgment 1« here mnde. VARIETIES OF SHEEP AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 1037 Meanwhile, attention was also being paid to the evenness of the crop,for Nature had no use for wool of equal fineness on every part of the skill of the breeder, however, managed to coax Nature into producingan even fleece, and the development of the most perfect fine-wool sheep inthe world was complete. XXIV. The Wool Harvest. It would have been possible to develop a few ideal sheep in special studflocks, without having brought the general flocks of the country up to ahigh standard, but there has been a remarkable all-round sheep-classing, selection, and culling became general, the average. TYPE OF SPANISH MERINO IMPORTED TO AUSTRALIA IN 1823. yield of wool was not more than three pounds or three and a half poundsper head, but the return has been gradually increased to a general averageof about seven pounds per sheep. Last year the clip of Australia and NevvZealand, according to Dalgetys review of wool, averaged seven pounds fourounces per head, and its average value per head of sheep and lambs was ($). Another indication of the increasing size of the fleeces is theaverage number of fleeces per bale of wool. The returns bearing upon thispoint show a marked enlargement of the fleece even within the last tenyears. The number of fleeces of sheeps and lambs wool averaged ,, and
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