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BLACK FATRUMP RAM 



Figure 2(5. This ram is typical of the Tshuiskoe breed of Bokhara. Most fatrump 

 sheep are red, and it is from these red breeds that much of the deterioration in the quality 

 of the fur-bearing Karakuls has come. 



broad again as the average longtail, 

 often broader. I am under the im- 

 pression that the fattails resulted from 

 a cross of the fatrumps on the long- 

 tails, as on two occasions I have ob- 

 served among Karakuls typical fattail 

 sheep. Suffice it to say here that thf' 

 typical fattailed breed in Russia is the 

 Voloshskaja, but there are several 

 others. 



Breeds of Fur-Sheep 



There are no tight curled fur-bear- 

 ing sheep among the fatrumps, fattails 

 or shorttails, but we do find them 

 among the broadtails and the longtails. 

 With the exception of the Karakul and 



the practically extinct Danadar breeds 

 no other sheep known has ever pro- 

 duced the much wanted pipe-like and 

 pin-head tight curls. Such breeds as 

 the Karachaev, the Osetin and other 

 breeds of Asia Minor, and the Malitch 

 of the Crimea (which often gives us a 

 gray skin, "the Krimmer,") have given 

 us beautiful, black, lustrous skins, but 

 with open curls, as previously stated, 

 and the same thing applies to such 

 longtail breeds as the Tchushka of 

 Bessarabia, the Reshetiliev and Soko- 

 liev of Poltava. If here and there 

 tight curled skins were produced by 

 the ]Malitch breed of the Crimea, it 



