Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . the microscopic appearance,says that gentleman, of a prime specimen of picklock South-Downwool, 1 being viewed as a transparent,and 2 as an opaque object. The fibreis g-^th part of an inch in diameter. The cups or leaves of 2 are roughenedirregular, and some of the leaves have ex-ceedingly short angles, but they are farsharper, more numerous and regular (thepoints which give wool its felting property) than in ordinary South-Downwool.
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . the microscopic appearance,says that gentleman, of a prime specimen of picklock South-Downwool, 1 being viewed as a transparent,and 2 as an opaque object. The fibreis g-^th part of an inch in diameter. The cups or leaves of 2 are roughenedirregular, and some of the leaves have ex-ceedingly short angles, but they are farsharper, more numerous and regular (thepoints which give wool its felting property) than in ordinary South-Downwool. In the latter, the cups are rounded and have a rhomboidal in-stead of that sharp and hooked character which distinguishes the Me-rino and Saxon. South-Down wool is deficient in felting properties. It makes a furzy,iiairy cloth, and is no longer used in England, unless largely admixedwit a foreign wool, even for the lowest class of cloths. The following testimony was given by some of the most eminent manufarturers, wool-factors, staplers, and merchants of England, before the(omniit*;ee of the House of Lords in 1828, several times previously al-luded to : t. To«aK, t See Biachoff, vol. ii pp. 145 to US. T 146 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. Mr. Bum., wool agent, Lewes.— Fonnerly it [Soutli-Down wool] wa« usetl ivtilothiii^ )>ur|);; now it is iiiiiMissible to Bell it lor tliut iiiaiiutiiclure; . . it is tued fniOuizea and in n very liUge way. Mr. \ (, vvoler, Wiltshire.—The public will not wear thoSouth-Down cloths, they are so very coarse. Mr. .Iamk-s IisoN, wool dealer, Thetlord.—There has been deterioration in the qutlityof (South-Down) wool; the general wei^-lit of the Heecc 20 years ago was 2 jjonnds to 2^,and it is now 3 ]iounds to 3A, our wool used to bt; made into cloths, and retinned into Nor-?olli, anil used liy niysilfand the agriculturists. We do not get the same cloth now ; neithermyself nor the larnier wou
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