Animal products; . true wool; andwe might go even .further, and consider that, with very fewexceptions, the external covering of all mammalian animals is avariable mixture of hair and wool. Of the two extreme contrasts of hair produced on domesticatedanimals, one is rigid, shining, coarse, well fixed. It is the jarre which exists nearly alone in the ordinary conditions of the horseand the ox. The other hair or down, hidden under the first, is CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOL. *5 extinguished by being more curled and tangled, and more dullthan the jarre, and also much finer. It is the wool whichexists n
Animal products; . true wool; andwe might go even .further, and consider that, with very fewexceptions, the external covering of all mammalian animals is avariable mixture of hair and wool. Of the two extreme contrasts of hair produced on domesticatedanimals, one is rigid, shining, coarse, well fixed. It is the jarre which exists nearly alone in the ordinary conditions of the horseand the ox. The other hair or down, hidden under the first, is CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOL. *5 extinguished by being more curled and tangled, and more dullthan the jarre, and also much finer. It is the wool whichexists nearly alone in the Merino sheep and in the Cashmeregoats. Wool is greatly preferred to the jarre by the manufac-turer, because it is much finer, curls more readily, and is foundbristling with little scaly asperities (due to its mode of develop-ment) which render it more adapted for felting and the manu-facture of tissues. From the coats of sheep, goats, rabbits, etc.,the coarse and rigid hair is carefully HUxMAN HAIR. RABBIT FUR. Wool, we find, is not then peculiar to the sheep, but forms an un-dercoat beneath ,the long hair in very many animals. Articles forclothing have been made from the wool of the musk-ox of NorthAmerica, and from the wool of the ibex of Little Thibet; but inthese and other such instances, they have been produced as objects•of curiosity rather than for any commercial purpose. In the sheep, judicious management has in the course of yearsincreased the growth of wool, and rendered the occurrence of hairunusual. Wherever attention has been paid to sheep-breeding,there a marked improvement has been manifested in the particulardirection in which the improvement has been sought, whether inthe carcase or in the fleece. The sheep produces the finestquality of wool in the warmer temperate and sub-tropical zones-only. i6 CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOL.
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