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DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



raising is a very important industry. They are raised for their 

 wool and mutton in this country, and also in Europe, Australia, 

 and Asia. 



They are usually classified according to the fineness of their wool 

 as follows: 



1. Fine-wooled 



Breeds : 



American Merino 

 Delaine Merino 

 Rambouillets 



2. Medium-wooled 3. Long-wooled 



Breeds : Breeds : 



Southdown Leicester 



Shropshire Lincoln 



Horned Dorset Cotswold 



Hampshire Down 

 Oxford Down 

 Cheviot 



Fine-wooled Breeds. The American Merino is a descendant 

 of the Spanish merino. The first merinos are said to have been 

 brought to the United States, in 1793, by William Foster of 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



It has large wrinkles on its neck and body and has a very fine 

 wool of a lustrous white color. It is not valued highly as mutton. 



The Delaine is 

 a development of 

 the merinos. De- 

 laines are some- 

 what larger and 

 their bodies are 

 freer from wrin- 

 kles, and they usu- 

 ally have polled 

 heads, but if horns 

 are present they 

 are small. 



The Rambouillets 

 come from the 

 northern part of 

 France, not far 

 from Paris, and they are sometimes called the French merinos. 

 They are the descendants of Spanish merinos taken by M. Gilbert 



French merino. 



