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2. Rambouillet ram wool 2^ in. long and of similar appear- 

 ance to the above. 



3. Rambouillet ram wool, 2f in. long, eleven months old, 

 bred by F. Schwartz, Lappenhagan, Hohenfelde, Pomerania, 

 Prussia. 



4. Rambouillet ram wool, three years old, 2| in. long, bred 

 by C. H. Kayser, of Haubitz, Grimma, Saxony. 



5. Cotswold-merino wool, 3 in. long, less dense and coarser, 

 exhibited by the Keltschau Sugar Company, Moravia. 



6. Prussian Rambouillet wool, 3 in. long and very fine, two 

 years old, bred by H. Kannenberg, Gerbin Kosternitz, Prussia. 



7. Fine Hungarian Merino, i to i in. long, from a three- 

 year-old-sheep, bred by Count Alois Karolyi, Stampfen, Hun- 

 gary. This wool is very fine and full of fat. 



8. Hungarian Electoral-Negretti, i to i in. long, bred by 

 the Countess Laura Henckle, of Karlsbad, Sarndorf. 



9. Ditto, ditto, from to i in. long. 



10. Cotswold-Negretti, bred by Count Frees, of Czerna- 

 hora, 3 to 3^ in. long and very hollow. 



Specimens of Australian Merino also before me show a less 

 perfect closure of the fleece, less fat or grease, and a con- 

 siderably greater length of fibre. 



1. An interesting sample of wool taken from a six-tooth 

 ewe which had missed shearing one year measures nine inches 

 long without stretching, and when stretched twelve inches. 

 The fibre is perfect throughout, and, therefore, disproves the 

 assertion so often made, and stated as a fact by Professor 

 Low, that sheep in a state of nature cast their fleeces every 

 year. 



2. A sample of hogget wool 6| in. long, and of fine fibre, 

 resembling spun silk. 



3. A sample of four-tooth wether wool 4 in. long, of nice 

 quality, but wanting in the characteristic solidity of the 

 Saxony wool. 



4. Various samples of Australian Merino wool, about 4 

 in. long, and of fine appearance, but not so dense in the pile 

 as the Saxony Rambouillet, nor yet so full of fat. 



