. The fur traders and fur bearing animals. Fur trade; Fur-bearing animals. The Sheep Family. 355 "It is said that there are a few specimens of the Black Danadar left in Khiva, but my search in that country failed to produce any. Chambo Tshorze, Ambassador from the Dalai Lama, told me there were some Danadars in a valley near Lhassa in Thibet, but that they were very ; For several years the government has been making tests in Washington, D. C, which have substantiated the claim advanced by Dr. Young, and other sheep breeders in the Southwest, that by crossing some of our domestic
. The fur traders and fur bearing animals. Fur trade; Fur-bearing animals. The Sheep Family. 355 "It is said that there are a few specimens of the Black Danadar left in Khiva, but my search in that country failed to produce any. Chambo Tshorze, Ambassador from the Dalai Lama, told me there were some Danadars in a valley near Lhassa in Thibet, but that they were very ; For several years the government has been making tests in Washington, D. C, which have substantiated the claim advanced by Dr. Young, and other sheep breeders in the Southwest, that by crossing some of our domestic long- wool breeds like the Lineolns, Cotswolds, Lestershires and Dartmores with the strains of the Arabi, or broad tail Sheep of the Bokharan desert, a fur is produced that is vastly superior to that of the Persian and other Asiatic Lambs for whose skins the American people are spending millions of dollars annually. Dr. Young, in writing for the Fur Trade Review about his experiments along this line, says:. "In texture some skins produced by us at Belen and Conutello, Texas, show an unsurpassable quality, notwith- standing the poor pasture that we were compelled to graze our Sheep on; and I have no hesitancy in predicting that the dry West and Southwest will in time revolutionize the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Petersen, Marcus, 1854-. Buffalo, N. Y. , Hammond Press
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