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Merino which represents the fine wooled type of sheep. Fig. 75 shows a 

 Southdown one of the middle wooled class while Fig. 73 is a Cheviot, 

 a typical long wooled sheep. 



In the cut on page 138 the three kinds of wool are shown, the piece of 

 wool on the left of the picture being from the Delaine Merino shown in 

 the first cut, the wool in the center being from the Southdown and the 

 wool on the right a typical piece of wool from the Cheviot, a long wooled 

 sheep. These samples of wool are typical of the three classes of sheep 



Fig. 72. — Modern method of shearing sheep 



but are a little short since the samples were taken about December 

 first and the wool is not grown out as it will be at shearing time early 

 in the spring. 



WOOL 



In this countr}^ at the present time perhaps more consideration is 

 given to the raising of sheep for the meat that they will produce than 

 for the amount of wool that can be sheared from, them but since the 

 wool is a valuable by-product it is only fair that certain consideration 

 should be given it in judging the proper kind of sheep to raise upon our 

 farms. The two things to be taken into consideration are quantity and 

 quality of wool and its condition. 



