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"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 

 few." 



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 Lincolns, 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 : 



ARABI EWE AND LAMB. 



"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 



